Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.