For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as 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.

May the power of the Holy Spirit give us the grace, strength and wisdom.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Politicians and children have two speeds: running and asleep.

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

For me, the main thing is spontaneity & taking chances.

One person's ceiling is another person's floor.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

Tiffany is wrestling in Jell-O.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

You do not need to look or be anorexic to be successful in Hollywood. The range of what's acceptable is a lot larger than what people believe.