We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL.

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.

You panic and you rage, then this calm settles over you, and you remake yourself.

There are no shortcuts to greatness

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

The sweetest pleasures soonest cloy, And its best flavour temperance gives to joy.

You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now.

Could I love less, I should be happier now.