One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.

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.

Maybe that’s what makes it so hard. When you spend years thinking and dreaming about someone and have them fall back into your life? Sounds like fate to me.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls.

My life is PG-13 sometimes, and I really want Josh Grogan to propose to me, and he just won't do it.

It's hard to keep your backbone straight in America. It's easy to turn into that which you hate, and to get smashed.

I've been traveling the world and experiencing different places, and you always discover new things.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once.

A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money.