I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

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.

But then again, maybe 'I will' is nicer. It has the future in it. 'I do' just has the present.

Your health is a long-range investment that will pay-off when you need it most.

Their peace and their war Are like wind and storm. War grows from their peace.

I was always shy and had a huge fear of being onstage.

In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Don't make promises you can't keep.

A film is a terrible thing to waste.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.