If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

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.

There would be no grand absolution, only forgiveness meter out in these precious sips. I would well up from Hugh's heart in spoonfuls, and he would feed it to me. And it would be enough.

If 90% of the people, go straight to the hell.So, where do we live now. 11.05.12

I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

Every year in consulting is like three years in the corporate world because you have multiple clients, multiple issues - you grow so much.

Farewell, too little, and too lately known, Whom I began to think and call my own.

I accept the global complex and global trade more than do some of my liberal colleagues because I consider this a wise alternative to national tension and conflict.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.