We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy.

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.

Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively

Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has a great appetite, but no heart.Pride has a great spirit, but no soul.

My chains are broken. I am free in Christ.

But new love only lasts so long, and then you crash back into the real people you are, and from as high as we were, it's a very long fall, and we hit the ground with a thud.

Do ACTS of MERCY in a BIG WAY.

I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

Excellence requires us to prepare in advance.

The opportunity to carry water every night to James Earl Jones on stage is a dream come true.

Home again, I can groan, scratch, and talk to myself.

It is the characteristic of the most stringent censorships that they give credibility to the opinions they attack.