This has been a dream for me.
That's the good thing about being President--I can do whatever I want.
We are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth or status or power or fame, but rather how well we have Loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better.
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and then allows you to learn something new.
Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).
Positive thinking can be contagious. Being surrounded by winners helps you develop into a winner.
A revolution is already taking place in India. Things are changing here already - peacefully and democratically. There's no danger of communism. There would be if we had a rightist government instead of mine.
For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke. . . They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.