Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. ― J.K. Rowling

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One of the first things I think young people, especially nowadays, should learn is how to see for yourself and listen for yourself and think for yourself. Then you can come to an intelligent decision for yourself. If you form the habit of going by what you hear others say about someone, or going by what others think about someone, instead of searching that thing out for yourself and seeing for yourself, you will be walking west when you think you're going east, and you will be walking east when you think you're going west. ― Malcolm X

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I grew up in New York and I've always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person. When somebody recognizes me from the film - and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film - I feel like they're talking about someone else we both know. I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.

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If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein

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Turning on the television set can turn off the process that transforms children into people... It is primarily through observing, playing, and working with others older and younger than himself that a child discovers both what he can do and who he can become — that he develops both his ability and his identity.

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Normal people think I'm insane.

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If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. ― Dorothy Parker

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The problem in America isn't so much what people don't know; the problem is what people think they know that just ain't so.

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People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

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My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

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