We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.

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.

Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.

If love is the greatest gift of all-and I believe it is- then the greatest privilege of all is to be able to love someone.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

You only get one world premiere of your directorial debut.

Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.