Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need.

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.

Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

It all comes down to this: If you want one year of happiness, grow grain If you want 10 years of happiness, grow trees If you want 100 years of happiness, grow people

Sit back, enjoy the ride and hang out with me for a little while. ( sorry, cheesy driving metaphor!)

When someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything's going to come out and be amazing.

God gives us many gifts, but never permanence; that we must seek in his arms.

Often parents have a great desire and hopes, and aspirations for their kids but they don't have any practical plans of action.

You gazed at the moon and fell in the gutter.