Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

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.

Dare to be different.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

What is best for people is what they do for themselves.

The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images.

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.