[America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace.

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.

...being Latino means being from everywhere, and that is exactly what America is supposed to be about.

In this life of our' there will be leaders and there will be followers', , You Lead' and when you must follow follow GOD'.

Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.

When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

An acoustic show is all about you, and any little nuance or mistake is amplified.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.

I’d just play the music and dance. When I’m dancing, I don’t even notice how I’m doing it.