"America will rise again. And hope will..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.”

“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”

“One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.”

“Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow.”

“It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.”

“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.”

“Take your mind off the problems for a moment,and focus on the positive possibilities.Consider how very much you are able to do.”

“If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.”

“There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.”