I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.

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.

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

On gray days, when it's snowing or raining, I think you should be able to call up a judge and take an oath that you'll just read a good book all day, and he'd allow you to stay home.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

Lord, I want to be your slave.

We seemed to be drifting as a society - losing touch with the basic concepts of right and wrong.

[a] heavy sense of guilt [is] the most potent factor in the whole psychologic picture of motherliness.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

My life was over, finished, and I’d never seen Pearl Jam play live

True genius does not fulfill expectations; true genius shatters it.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.