[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.

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.

It is never about who is right or wrong, it is about what is best.

If we do not fix education in Africa, we are heading for monumental economic disaster.

The sleepy like to make excuses.

You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

Your money should be at work at all times.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

I want to be the next Gisele Bundchen . Everything she does, who she is, what she's done, she's just amazing.

Love one another without any expectations. Then, there is no need to go anywhere in search of heaven.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.