I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

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.

Fear is the impotence of the soul.

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If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you'll find that they're gone.

I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

Practice makes us what we shall be.

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.