It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

The universe has more than enough business and wealth for everyone—way more than enough.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

The first time her laughter unfurled its wings in the wind, we knew that the world would never be the same

A hero knows it takes hard work and a long time to get published; a fool thinks it should happen immediately, because he thinks heÕs a hero already.

I always try to sleep for at least eight hours a night and, of course, water, water, water!

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

I tried to please people instead of believing in my own strength, until the only thing I could do was walk away.

Have you ever tried?" "No." Then don't tell me I can't.

Things are moving pretty quick, and of course, the whole focus is training and getting ready and being able to prepare to be on the world's stage and hopefully do the United States proud.