We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe.

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 mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

The experience is about how we get there, not the landing place.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

No obstacles are insurmountable when God commands and we obey.

I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

A girl what's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.

You have to be great friends and make each other laugh. We laugh a lot and neither is jealous of the other.

My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.