You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

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.

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

And help us this and every day to live more nearly as we pray.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

Life goes on but the scars remain.

Character is the moral strength to do the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay.

My nickname when I was young was Teddy, so people would call me Teddy Bear.

When you forget that you need Allah, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon him. And that's for your own good.

The great improvement of the radio over the telephone is that it may be turned off without offending the speaker.

A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you.

IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!