This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.

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.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn’t share them all at once.

What about mold, " Tom reminded her. "Fuzziness on a girl is never attractive.

I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

Campaign promises are - by long democratic tradition - the least binding form of human commitment.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

It's the kind of democratization of the Internet that has led to the breaking down of barriers into the creative arts.

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.

I believe you can only draw from your own life as an actor. All the characters I've played, I only have my infinite eye and the presence of my life to take from.

While you're waiting, God's working.