Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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.

Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us... Save my little girl...

Do you remember your first real teacher? Your first real teacher is your first sorrow, your first crying!

Money can buy you knowledge, but not the wisdom to use it wisely.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The American films just have so much more publicity and so much more money behind them that it's so hard to compete.

Do you like to eat things? -I love eating. I list it as a hobby.

It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.