Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

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.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

When we are lonely we not only react more intensely to the negatives

Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided

Movies don't necessarily change culture. I don't know if we know for sure if movies change culture but we know for sure that they reflect culture.

You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape.

I never read Karl Marx.

I love to go see live music. That used to be what I would do, almost every other night, and watch drummers play.

God wants us to practice on Earth what we're going to do forever in eternity.