We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

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.

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

My open workouts are like fight day. I've got a lot of pressure on me and I ride it to the top.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

I think a composer is always interested in his last work.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen.

Nothing tastes as good as looking good feels.