My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

The future is plump with promise.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.