The pain I felt was my father's pain.

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.

Our sacred duty is to proclaim and preach the gospel of salvation to all people from every nation.

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

Why don't we all just get a long-neck?

We can never right the wrongs of the past.

President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?

You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

A moment of choice is a moment of truth.

I'm buying records a lot, like, every week I'm just buying old reissues or old originals or new records that I have heard about.