I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.

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.

Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

Happiness is there when you express kindness, compassion, and unconditional love and fill yourself with bliss and joy.

People are so busy polishing their past, that they forget to paint their future.

She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

I do not consider myself a teddybear. Just to be clear, I don't feel sorry for myself.

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

I think hell's a real place where real people spend a real eternity.

Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.