Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

What you are will show, ultimately. Start now, every day, becoming, in your actions, your regular actions, what you would like to become in the bigger scheme of things.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

You can't teach talent. You can't teach inspiration. You can teach people critical facilities. You can give them techniques. You can teach discipline. And you can teach them about the business.

Each person has a literature inside them.

Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

Be more than ready. Be present in your discipline. Remember your gift. Be grateful for your gift and treat it like a gift. Cherish it, take care of it, and pass it on.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

The pathway to your greatest potential is straight through your greatest fears!

People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

I was a big Superman fan, growing up. I've always been a big superhero fan.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are.

This American government has become very adept at attaching labels to people who defend themselves, so that the general population in America will condone their behavior.

I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

When I first found out I had diabetes I denied it.

We are all human beings. As such, we are part of a big family: the human family. The pain of any human being will somehow affect the entire family.