Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

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.

Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

Older couples bring obligations such as support payments and debt as well as decades of financial experience to a marriage.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what otherwise is a "please sit with your hands on your lap" kind of event.

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

Inspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments.

But it’s like Cherise says, the hardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most. (Aimee)

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.