One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.

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.

Your self-defense becomes a self-defeat when you are doing it for selfish reasons! It's not about you and your pocket alone

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

Weakness is an irresistible lure.

Photography has definitely been my favorite way to remember things. At least for me that’s how my brain processes things, of memories or moments.

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

Responsibility always stops at the president's desk.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

I always tell my kids, "Find something that you love and within that you'll find some job that you can do and you'll always be happy. You'll go to a job that you want to go to."

I'm going to ride the wave.