Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made.

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.

Electricity crackles from her lips to mine and I'm stunned it's not visible.

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

I'm not famous for my back story investigations I'm lucky that I work with good writers and it's usually in the script.

One could argue [Bob] Corker has been more supportive of [Donald] Trump's foreign policy skepticism of the establishment than anybody else.

Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.

Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

Let your life be guided by greatness

This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit.