Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.

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.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

Physics is not the most important thing. Love is.

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

The traveler walks through many mirages before he finds water.