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

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.

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.

While we breathe, we will hope.

I’m a warrior for the middle class.

When your every thought and your every action is directed to your ultimate life goals, you become unstoppable and assured of great success and happiness.

Cut your excuses in half and double your actions around your goals.

We must create our own world or we will die from inaction.

People say a lot. So, she watches what they do.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.