You have to have a strong team around you [being a president].

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.

With…love of wind, there is no surer test of genuine Nature instinct that this. Any body can love sunshine.

A nation of unhappy teachers makes for a sadder and more endangered America.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

Children make your life important.

Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?' 'I'm called Chocho,' Will said... 'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

The world needs you. It needs that special thing you've been dreaming about since you were little.

So the blind will lead the blind, and the deaf shout warnings to one another until their voices are lost.

Now listen little pigs, I'm gonna let you off the hook if you open the door.

Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.