Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.

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.

That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.

If you are obliged to do something inevitable, don’t lose time to think about it, do it right away!

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

When you scan the globe's hot spots, every civil war and massacre, every act of terror and every clash between states has its unique local circumstances.

For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.

Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from one generation to the next.

Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.