“When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.”

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

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.

We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

While we breathe, we will hope.

I’m a warrior for the middle class.

Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning.

Wheels of justice gind slow but grind fine.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.

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

If you’re looking to become an entrepreneur then don’t waste your time going to university or business school – just get on and do it.

Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you’re going to double your inventiveness.