People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

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.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Midas, they say, possessed the art of old Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.