For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it.

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.

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

Beauty is transient and changes with time.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

I'm hanging out with my New York friends, my Jersey boys, my family and loving every single second of it.