The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

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.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

They say the breaks even up in the long run, and the trick is to be a long-distance runner.

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

There was never any point in my life when I wasn't called Mr. Donen. I'm told my first words were, 'Call me Mr. Donen.' But I suspect that's apocryphal. My mother, Mrs. Donen, tended to exaggerate.

After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.

He said, 'Always. Always.