The Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America.

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.

Lord what fools these mortals be!

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.

Everything is so finite but that’s what makes our time and specific moments so important.

The best camera is the one you have with you.

I thought if I could be a model, or even do commercials and stuff like that for the rest of my life, I’d be happy.

The virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.