“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.”

Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.

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

We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

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.

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

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.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings,

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

The real story is that I am very free, that I’ve managed to be who I wanted to be without compromising.

For us, compromise never means surrender, but a step forward and some rest. That is all and nothing else.

If you’re my woman, you’re somebody I give emotions to that I don’t give to nobody else. You’re my safe space. I don’t want my safe space to be compromised.