We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

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.

Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.

Today, monogamy is one person at a time.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

Man's best candle is his understanding.

Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.

Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.

Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods.

When I'm [playing] a character, I can look at it and know it's not me and not be concerned with how it looks.