One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them.

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.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

Thought is the source of all wealth, all success, all achievement. Our dominant thoughts determine our individuality, our career, our daily life.

The crimes of extreme civilization are certainly more atrocious than those of extreme barbarism.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

The Dalai Lama says don't pray for peace, don't wait for peace, don't talk about peace - do it right now.

I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.

I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.

I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions.