We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals.

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.

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

Without hope men are only half alive. With hope they dream and think and work.

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.

This world is not my concern; it is myself.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Here is a fine field for talent.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

Yes, I've been very preoccupied with the survivor all through my work.

Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.

No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.