As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office.

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.

Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

Home is the school where we learn that love shows itself in the details.

For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance.

It is meaningless to speak in the name of - or against - Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.

When it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy of this country, the President has a heart of gold.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!