We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States.

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.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?

I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running America.

I'm going to use the White House and every tool at my disposal as your president to make the case that patriotism is profitable.

I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

Once he had taken hold, he did not let go. It was not a handshake, it was a possession.

I think lines are meant to be crossed anyways. The entire time I was singing on the cross, there's numbers flipping over my head. You know, starting at one and going up to 12 million.

You see, she had absolutely nowhere else to go.