When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities.

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 good friend is someone who is there for me when i'm glad or sad...who I can laugh madly with or cry badly with.

Though I am faced with many adversities, my heart will not faint. The Lord is my comfort, my hope and my peace.

I cried because I was so beautiful.

Our kids will never have to remember things, because it's all in pictures. Want to remember your fourth birthday? There'll be video of it on your phone.

There's moments when you have to make a split-second decision that will form you for the rest of your life.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

I think it's necessary to let kids get bored once in a while-that's house they learn to be creative.

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy.

Great knowledge brings great sorrow.

I've been an admirer of Helen Mirren for a long time. As I get older, I find myself admiring older women who have poise and elegance.