I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm.

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.

Time is the first currency for success and one we all hold in common.

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

There is no god, not a god who would create the things I saw

We need to do something about gun violence in America. But every time one of these things happen, we say the same thing, and then we don't seem to be able to do anything. And that needs to change.

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.

Beauty is a natural superiority.

When I see birches bend to left and right... I like to think some boy's been swinging them.

The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.