Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year.

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.

But after years of teaching, we have decided that a lot of mothers just aren't reading textbooks.

Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

The great biographers take excessive liberties in denigrating his person, and, in doing so, they make it difficult to comprehend

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

Loving your neighbour as much as yourself is practically bloody impossible? You might as well have a commandment that states,'Thou shalt fly'.

I have two kinds of Facebook friends: Those who know what 'DFTBA' means, and those who don't.

Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.