I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

If things were easy to find, they wouldn’t be worth finding.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.

No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means.

You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

Tell God you are ready to be offered, and God will prove Himself to be all you ever dreamed He would be.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.