The dollar is the reserve currency of the world.

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.

Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick.

Is the healing process the writing or the reading of that writing?What are we all healing from? Ourselves?What are we all healing towards? Ourselves?

Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

Every time I see a bluebird, I say, well, hey, all this hard work is all worth while.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

Cloath thee in war, arme thee in peace.

There is no more final end than death

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.