To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

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.

The grace of God is joyous gladness.

Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

Most of us are too focused on our future that we forget to live our present.

Don't think about that. Just believe I'll be okay.

There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.

Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.

beware the clever man that makes the wrong look right

God's greatest blessings are upon those who show the proper respect for the poor and the needy.

I just live one day at a time.

I've been hit hard a few times, been hit really hard a few times, but I don't think I've ever left a memorable, lasting impression on anyone I've ever hit.