“If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.”

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.

We are the change we have been waiting for.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.

Love and hope can conquer hate.

To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.

There is no excuse for not trying.

It gets better. It seems hard, you know, I think being different is always gonna be a tough climb.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

This was in the ’70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.

No tolerance for bullying.

How easy it is to make fun of someone, how difficult to step into their shoes.

What people don’t realize is that fame, whatever your worst experience in high school, when you were being bullied by those ten kids in high school, fame is that, but on a global scale, where you’re being bullied by millions of people constantly.

We the people will not be silenced, we the people will not be bullied, we the people will not surrender.

I will not relive that bullying nightmare.