One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

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.

Did you forget a dentist appointment or something, big guy? Where the hell did you hop off to?

…the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

Yes, some people will say you get successful obese businesspeople. But are they happy? Probably not.

Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?

I am not a Virginian, I am an American.

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.