I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.

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.

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.

Perfecting is a journey...There is no destination called perfection.

1862 ...although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

A perfect life is to observe - to realize that you have no control over the events in your life, that there are no events in your life, that there is no life.

Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.

Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

I don't expect to win every battle but I think Fred Pierce has enough respect for me that I can go fight my battles and win my share.

Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.