The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.

In America, with education and hard work, it really does not matter where you came from; it matters only where you are going.

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you'll do it well.

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.

Differences can be a strength.

If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.

We are in a race between knowledge and catastrophe. If we keep track of what is important, never lower our standards or forget why we are here, we have the ability to determine the fate of the world.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

It's not just a matter of saying you have to have courage, because you learn courage.

[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.