“One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.”

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

Racism is a blight on the human conscience.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy.

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

The time is always right to do right.

The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad.

It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

The day I am afraid to do, that is the day I am no longer fit to lead.

I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

Money is necessary — both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

As you go down the path of life, ask whats true. Not who else believes it.

I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.

Maybe a president who didn’t believe our soldiers were going to heaven might be a little less willing to get them killed.

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Try to believe that still within you are flowers left to bloom.

From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That’s the rule of life.