Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

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.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.

You would think that as you get older you would be more disciplined. As I get older I get less disciplined. I just play around!

And there was a very famous man called Michael Powell, who probably is the greatest director all round, except possibly a couple of men.

I wear a mezuzah just to remind me, just to make sure that there is never another holocaust anywhere.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.