Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don't share.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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.

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.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

Politics is a serious business dealing with serious issues and it should be taken very seriously, and seriously intelligent people should pronounce on political matters.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

With each person our heart loves, our soul becomes stronger.

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.

I will be happy with myself because I always say I don't want to think back.

I finally realized that until you understand why you do things, you have no control over what you do.

A thousand hills, but no birds in flight, Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks. A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man, Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.