Please proceed, Governor.

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.

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ...

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.

Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Things are beautiful or ugly only in time and space. The new man's vision being liberated from these two factors, all is unified in one unique beauty.

The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.

Lyon are the same away from home as they are at home, they have the same way of playing.

You find me a Democrat that's for cutting spending $10 and I'll give them a warm kiss.

Your life today is a result of your thinking yesterday. Your life tomorrow will be determined by what you think today.

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.