We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside.

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.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you.

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

Worry is like rocking in a rocking chair all day, because it keeps you busy but gets you nowhere.

It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.