“We must all learn a good lesson – how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world, learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.”

Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

I want the conflict to be resolved so Libya can continue on its path to world leadership.

If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.

He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality, workers’ rights to organize, and civil rights for the least able.

When we’re unemployed, we’re called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it’s called a depression.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

We must not measure greatness from the mansion down, but from the manger up.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it’s time for you to send it back to me – toasted and buttered on both sides.

We’ve removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

I know they are all environmentalists. I heard a lot of my speeches recycled.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

People like to say don’t abort, adopt. But I’m saying don’t strip, scholarship.

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation’s consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.

I have a very strong opinion. I’m absolutely against it. I’m against the challenge system. I’m for the way it is right now. Don’t change that.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

Don’t get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it’s your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.

Your daily challenge to not be like a boss, but the boss, in all things you.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that’s what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

That’s kind of the challenging thing about writing an inaugural poem. You’re speaking to everyone, but you don’t also want to speak for everyone.