Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.

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.

Despair and disappointment are the parent of countless inspired, inspiring, triumphant creations

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

Possessions dwindle: I mourn their loss. But I mourn the loss of time much more for anyone can save his purse but none can win back lost time.

And what so tedious as a twice-told tale.

I don't idolize anyone or aspire to be like anyone.

I love pop music because you can really see what's currently happening in society.

Winning and losing is a part of democracy.

The Kettlebell is an Ancient Russian Weapon Against Weakness

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.

A room without books is like a life without meaning.