Every child needs a champion.

It takes a village to raise a child.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

A bold attitude is what true leaders use to crash down failure before they venture with their visions!

A touch of love makes everything better.

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Usually, we have some of those nostalgic moments like, "Oh my god, I can't believe we survived that day," because filmmaking is such a wild roller coaster ride.

At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.

Follow your instincts and do not let other people's opinion of you become your opinion of yourself.