You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq.

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.

You think you've forgotten how to dream, " he said, "but really...you're just waiting for the right dream.

Maybe the reason faith is called faith is because seeing doesn’t lead to belief, but belief transforms the way we see.

There was one less monster on earth, and the world was certainly better off without him.

I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.

We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.

Practice makes the Master. You can reconcile what you are and what you want to be.

If you play Bach every day, you are not so alone.

I don't have any nicknames.

We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand.