We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

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.

A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.

Only you can create bold goals that attract success for your business as you use your God-given gifts to serve others.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

I always wanted to be an actor.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

I believe in sometimes getting mad and always getting even.

By seeing the beauty in every face we lift others into their wisest self and increase the chances of hearing a synchronistic message.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.

I've read The Satanic Verses and I thought it a nasty, sneering, free-thinking book... I can understand why the book is offensive and it didn't seem to me to be anything but offensive when I read it.

There is no rewind button for life.