We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

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.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

You will not solve global climate change by hitting the delete button.

All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future... most importantly global warming and climate change.

Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any.

92 people are killed every single day in car fatalities. What if we filmed every one of them? No one would drive cars.

School is a good place - it ain't for everybody, but I think it's for most people.

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

I am a better mother for having something in my life and not just my children.

Each encounter with Jesus fills us with joy, with that deep joy which only God can give.

The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.