The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

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.

Love is blind. You don't have to be.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

We are boxed in by the boundary conditions of our thinking

People are far more sincere and good-humored at speeding their parting guests than on meeting them.

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

All I have, really, is my creativity.

To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

When you do business with people you need money. When you do business with God you need faith. Faith is the currency of the Kingdom of God.

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood; Land of the mountain and the flood!

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.