Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied.

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.

The home is basically a sacred institution . . . Faith in Christ is the most important of all principles in the building of a happy marriage and a successful home.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.

It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.

It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment.

Cold silence has a tendency to atrophy any sense of compassion between supposed lovers

I bought a seven-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring.

Iran's nuclearization is the greatest single national security threat America faces.

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.