We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

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.

Chasing money to please society.

My greatest hope is to be a mother who loves Jesus with a deep and abiding affection that joyfully overflows to my children.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don't know where the kick's coming from.

The monetary policy of the United States has a major impact on global liquidity and capital flows and therefore, the liquidity of the US dollar should be kept at a reasonable and stable level.

I am told that the Saudis have organized 34 countries who want to join in the battle against terrorism.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.