The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.

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.

Climb the ladder of success, by always presenting your best self. Practice being exceptional at what you do.

When you stop giving attention to someone that takes you for granted, they will notice...trust!

Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.

she's never forgotten, either, how a mystery caught in the hand could lose its grace

There is no solitude in nature.

I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.

I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.