What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth.

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.

The person you are sleeping with signifies the value upon which you have for yourself. You are attracted to who reflects your deepest vision of yourself

Look at mirror! What do you see in you? Do you see someone who can't amount anything in life or do you see a unique human being that was born to dream and conquer the world.

I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

The man who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon himself. The man who thinks loving thoughts is loved.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be returned.

Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .