We have a stake in one another...what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart.

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.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

Guilt is basically one of my superpowers. It’s been programmed into me from the moment I was old enough to know what it was.

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted.

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

You feel sadness for time passing. New York is a city that keeps reinventing itself, and I love it so much.

When I was in my 40s was I simply produced my own movies because no one offered me anything. But certainly after 50 it's hard for a woman, which is why television is such a welcoming thing.

I think we just have to become more consistent.

It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired her.

I don't go to parties. I don't go to clubs. My friends and I don't go drinking, we play D&D. I'm still a weird entity in the world.

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.