"The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason, and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize."

"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat."

"A resilient spirit knows that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"It is a essential truth that let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky."

"Every season of life has its own unique blossom, if only we take care to notice. Such is the immutable nature of understanding — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Let thoughts come and go like clouds across an undisturbed autumn sky. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself."