Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

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.

You rush a miracle worker, you get lousy miracles!

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Education is unfolding the wings of head and heart together. The job of a teacher is to push the students out of the nest to strengthen their wings.

Do not try to prove that you are the most important person or that you are the lord’s anointed

The fool has said in his heart: pass me another Everlasting God-Stopper, please.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

We're getting to the point where it's important for each platform to have unique, differentiated titles -- so that if consumers want to buy that game, they have to buy that system

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.