Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

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.

I always ended up doing things I didn’t want to do today just so I didn’t regret not doing them tomorrow.

Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.

Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.