Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage.

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.

If during the day, a person did not do anything about his purpose and calling, he did nothing at all

There's a light in a woman's eyes that speaks louder than words.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

As a matter of fact I trade in accordance to my means and always leave myself an ample margin of safety.

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

If it ain't fun don't do it.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets jealous.