What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

As our values are the core to who we are as human beings, they are also the easiest way to identify and connect with others in meaningful ways. Think about it - most political campaigns are based around values. Barack Obama's 2008 election campaign galvanized millions of youth behind two very clear values - hope and change.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

If you create something, you don't want someone else to go and profit from it; you have your right to make a living and everything. So I respect copyright. What I don't respect is copyright extremism. And I what I don't respect is a business model that encourages piracy.

I always thought of myself as more American than Americans when I was living in Germany, because I always had this attitude of can-do, and if you're successful, you can show it, which is a very un-German thing, you know.

Always upbeat, always happy, always putting you in a good mood. That's what I want to achieve with my music.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

You exist only in what you do.

A different language is a different vision of life.

I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.

Censorship is advertising paid by the government.

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.

If you're afraid of failure or getting it wrong, you'll never truly innovate or disrupt the market.

There is a misperception among job seekers that opportunities for women in tech exist only for those with coding or engineering experience. To be sure, technology firms do need women with these skills, but they also need women with expertise in other areas, like marketing and finance.

Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.

Things like chatbots, machine learning tools, natural language processing, or sentiment analysis are applications of artificial intelligence that may one day profoundly change how we think about and transact in travel and local experiences.

I travel very light. I never want to check a bag. My only standards are a few sets of clothes, my white sneakers, my blue backpack, and my laptop. I don't have any special things otherwise.

The move to Internet-enable travel booking is creating massive convenience, efficiency, and savings for consumers.

Friction still exists in travel, and we are on a quest to go even further to make the entire experience - from planning to staying and beyond - even easier with technology.

Nobody's life is ever all balanced. It's a conscious decision to choose your priorities every day.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

I am convinced that the majority of American people do understand that we have a moral responsibility to foster the concepts of opportunity, free enterprise, the rule of law, and democracy. They understand that these values are the hope of the world.

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

Very rarely does food enhance the conversation. If the food is really good, there'll be much less conversation because you'd be concentrating too much on the food.

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Your smile will give you a positive countenance that will make people feel comfortable around you.

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way.

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.