My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up.

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.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

To find your self, get lost is the search of knowledge and wisdom.

What is needed to attain happiness is not a comfortable life, but a heart in love, such as Christ's.

youth is a marvelous garment

He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

You've really got to keep on improving and improving and improving. It still involves work. It's not like you get to a point, and then you're good and that's it.