Look in the mirror and see the President in you.

When doubted, double your efforts

See it in yourself, and the world will follow suit. Believe in you.

It isn’t the lack of opportunities you are facing, more so the lack of confidence

Life is not a hotel. Life is a battlefield.

Have fun with the uncertainty of life. When you learn to do so, you will be certain to win.

No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.

The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.

Successful people will declare that their failures have been the foundation for their success.

Push until you can push no more, and then, push some more.

I have falling in love with reading.

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

Trust your brain to suggest a solution, then have the courage to follow through.

The failure in Ohio to have adequate voting capacity for the people who were registered and eligible to vote was an absolute denial of their right to vote.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.