It's the less bright students who make teachers teach better.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

The best vision is insight.

Presence is more than just being there.

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

If you've had a good time playing the game, you're a winner even if you lose.

Success and talent aren’t even in the same neighborhood.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

I will stand up and speak in my own voice and no man will ever silence me again.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?'

The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.

Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.