Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country

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.

Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

What could I do but go with them Civil War soldiers, or work for them and my country? The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy.

How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

How do you kill a vampire?"-Mac "Hope hes not"-Barrons

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.