"Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world."

"For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps."

"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"

"One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other."

"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole."

"We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future."

"Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion."

"When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether."