You know, I think that we are going to be OK. Look, Malia is 10, so three years from now she is 13. Who knows what happens to teenagers?

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.

The Soul has never become impure not even for a second and if it had become impure then no one in this world would have been able to purify it.

I give myself permissionto enjoy the present moment.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

One can pass on knowledge but not wisdom. One can find wisdom, one can live it, one can be supported by it, one can work wonders with it, but one cannot speak it or teach it.

In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

I don't understand the change of hair...Frankly, the fringe was a bad idea. It's not good.

I make sure to keep a good distance between us, just in case she decides to get happy with a knife or something.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.