To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget.

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.

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's.

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

Falling in love is like leaping from a cliff. Your brain screams that it’s not a good idea and that hurt and pain will inevitably come to you. But yourheart believes you can soar, glide and fly.

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

In rehearsal you have a good accident that you can repeat.In the movies if you have a good accident you hope the camera's running.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

There’s less violence in my world compared to yours,” she insisted. Spade sighed. “No, darling. There are only different reasons for it.

All human belief systems are inherently flawed.

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.

If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.