I do my best work when I feel conviction to say something through the character I play. Always I want to have integrity and not compromise that.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

LOVE is meant to make you Happy, not sad. What's the use of Love, if it makes you mad!

A wonderful person finds amazing beauty in everything and everyone.

Don’t make your journey toward success a competition—make it a love affair.

Optimistic people bring a sense of hope into world. Encouraging people bring a new meaning to life. They help you see past the clouds on a glooming day. They bring sunlight everyday

God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him.

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

The cyclone ends. The sun returns; the lofty coconut trees lift up their plumes again; man does likewise. The great anguish is over; joy has returned; the sea smiles like a child.

The only people who think life should be easy are lazy people

My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

You never want to think the best things are in the past. You want to get yourself to believe that the best things are going to be in the future.