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

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.

Greatness is never free; it must be earned.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.

Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.

The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Why can’t I just eat my waffle?

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.

It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.

When you build her up, you build yourself up, because the foundation of your relationship is built with the same love.

Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.

Houses built on heartbreak is that what you call love.

To set free my ideas while the world was still building a cage was the biggest mistake I’ve ever made.

And sometimes I think I could touch the sky because these hands were made to reach and this heart was built to survive.

Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling.

We live in a strange world, where we think we can buy or build our way out of a crisis that has been created by buying and building things. Where a football game or a film gala gets more media attention than the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.

Don’t let them take any more of your heart that you’ve already given them. Hold onto what you have left and build it again.