Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

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.

I am going to seek a great Perhaps.

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

If you don't look like the ruling class, bring your inhaler.

I can honestly say that being a United States senator has been the honor of my life.

The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

Actresses are kind of a little crazy.

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.