There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

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.

Time changes, that's why our lives change.

Italian journalism is free because it serves one cause and one purpose... mine!

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Canada has a real civil service, which the United States doesn't have, an independent civil service. Canada also has a stronger federal system.

Our system of forechecking is to shoot the puck and leave it there.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

Laughter makes me come alive. Either being made to laugh or igniting it.

Im not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or let the characters speak through me, whatever that might mean.