Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor.

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.

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

You need not fear it, but you must always bear in mind that the past is never quite as finished with you as you think you are with it.

I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.

Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

I was never out of my Bible.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

Donald Trump has stated that his three older children will manage his business once he enters office.

I view my wife as my lover, and we have a bond that goes beyond words like wife or girlfriend or mother.