Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

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.

When you have doubts about God, the right position to take is agnosticism, atheism is outright arrogance

Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.

She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.

I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.

But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods.

Each one of these bodies (art-works Arp made) certainly signifies something, but it is only once there is nothing left for me to change that I begin to look for its meaning, that I give it a name.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies.

We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.