I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

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.

You have to accept the situation to be able to change it.

I think the debate in our society now is that people have to agree on zero-tolerance to terrorism.

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

I don't want people to think I believe in God.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed, are [as] when we are suffering greatly, we are inclined to suppose.

When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks.

My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry.

There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.

. . . a statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.