There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

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.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

Live events and lectures in front of large audiences. It is the best. I like it more than eating dinner.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn.

We thrive not when we've done it all, but when we still have more to do.

Never mind what I told you - you do as I tell you.

Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.