We have Jews, Muslims, Hindus, atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, and their own path to grace is one that we have to revere and respect as much as our own

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 abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.

Please, God. Help me. Take this pain away. Please fill this loneliness with your love. Help me, God, please, help me.

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see

I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.

Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.