To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

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.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.

If you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you.

While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

As each sun rises, it is your choice to wait for some special day to celebrate, or to celebrate that each day is special.

Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.