Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple A country.

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.

But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.

Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

I believe very firmly in the principle of free agency - people making their own decisions and doing what they think is right.

The Christian life, and especially the contemplative life, is a continual discovery of Christ in new and unexpected places.

A lot of people are actually surprised when I do open up my mouth and smile a little bit, and crack a joke and drink a beer.

Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.