One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

I didn't know if I was unhappy. I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.

If I didn't play tennis I probably would have to see a psychiatrist.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.

what would you call this haircut?" arthur.

Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

But the first thing that we have to do is to say, “I walk towards the tunnel, and I’m on my own, and I’m not afraid. And I have no regrets.

I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction.

I don't eat any toxic chemicals, and I eat organic as often as possible.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.