Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets.

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.

[Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place, ' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

I don't enjoy watching people fail, but I don't feel sorry for them when they fail crossing my path, that I love.

A statesman is any politician it's considered safe to name a school after.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.

Teaching is a creative profession, not a delivery system. Great teachers do [pass on information], but what great teachers also do is mentor, stimulate, provoke, engage.

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty.

You'll understand when I'm dead.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.