[White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up.

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.

Your attitude in your storm determines how long you are in it

My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.

As far as I'm concerned, no human being should be, absolutely not, put in the category of color.

Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte.

Love was just a word to me. Until you came along and gave it meaning.

The future did not arrive.

I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.

I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.