The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

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.

Remember that you were born with only love and hope

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

Remember to dream big, think long-term, underachieve on a daily basis, and take baby steps. That is the key to long-term success.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

My pictures are complex and so am I.