Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

The most challenging project I’ve ever done, I think, is every single thing I’ve ever tried to do. It’s never easy.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

If I have a platform and a voice, I should use it for my people.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities. Everybody struggles in different ways.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they’ve done on the Shanghai line in China, and if we had a straight path from L.A. to San Francisco, as well as the milk run, at least that would be progress.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

To go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

A jug fills drop by drop.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

As a soccer player, I wanted an FA Cup winner’s medal. As an actor you want an Oscar. As a chef it’s three-Michelin’s stars, there’s no greater than that. So pushing yourself to the extreme creates a lot of pressure and a lot of excitement, and more importantly, it shows on the plate.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

People tell me that they are so hopeful when they see me and other children ‚school-striking,‘ and they say, ‚Oh the children are going to save us.‘ But no, we aren’t. We are too young to be able to do that. We don’t have time to wait for us to grow up and fix this in the future.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘