Ours is not the first generation to understand the dire need for health reform. And I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

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.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco.

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

Perception is made up of bands.

You don't need a pickup line. Just glance at a woman from across the room. Glance - don't stare.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.

In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.