Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo.

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.

You cannot enrich yourself with material possessions. However, you can enrich yourself by giving yourself away with love, service, kindness, compassion, and courage.

I will, without hesitation, walk away from anything and anyone that threatens my peace or sense of self.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

You might be a redneck if you prominently display a gift you bought at Graceland.

The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make a difference that you lived at all-using the talents that God has given you for the betterment of others.

You have to love what you're doing in order to find the energy.

You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.