I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.

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.

What a difference having a friend makes.

There are now over 5, 000 medical physicists in the U.S more than 50 times the number in 1958.

God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.

Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

The key to selfless giving is that you feel good when you do it and you feel good afterwards.

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

the more you live the more things reflect all around you!!!!

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.