In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

Don't be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

If you do not begin to search, then you cannot find anything

you don't have to be great to get started but you have to to get started to be great

You don’t experience anxiety unless you’re attached to a thought that isn’t true for you. It’s that simple.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.

Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.

I feel comfortable in Spanish, I chat like a parrot, but I don't have the confidence in Spanish that I do in English.