"Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?"

"The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility."

"I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood."

"If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point."

"A quiet mind is capable of understanding that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"In the depths of adversity, the mind is a garden where thoughts are the seeds."

"Hope and change? We're not doing that anymore. They're doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track."

"On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians."