The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

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.

If you try to cultivate your talents in someone else’s shadow, they might wilt.

Forgiveness is the best way to disempower an enemy.

Existentialism's first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

You don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in.

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.

Nostradamus, who predicted that Billy Bailey would not come home. Never got a dinner!

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.