We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

A lot of people want to change the world, but only a few people want to change themselves. When it comes to the issue of race in America, we have to do both.

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.

The future is the one thing you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future will always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has run to sea.

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of the meaning itself".

The best role is always ahead.

I never had any ambitions of being a movie star or anything like that, but you know, this is nice.

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

I think I want to move forward. I want to move to Brooklyn and find a business Italian guy to take care of me.

When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kid's private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. It's not my job. It's my calling.