The world makes you something that you’re not - but you know inside what you are.

Human dignity should be without borders.

We should allow them to be who they are, because then we end up with healthy kids.

I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.

No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.

Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.

What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Schools should look behind classroom doors and determine the factors that contribute to the kinds of interactions between teachers and students that promote student achievement.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.

My first three movies, I didn't start editing until we were finished shooting. That's unthinkable to me now.

When we safeguard (the heavenly virtue of freedom), when we honor it, when we protect it, we will walk with Washington, we will pray with patriots, and we shall have peace on earth, good will to men.

Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.