“You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.”

Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.

In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.

I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.

If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.

A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.

It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.

It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.

When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us?

Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won’t fail forever.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Failure is a part of creating a great life. Stand up to it and handle it with grace. Because, you can.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

We will return to the pitch, and give it everything.

Show me someone without an ego, and I’ll show you a loser.