I happen to be a hopeaholic. I tend to look at problems as an opportunity to do some work.

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.

Love others the way God loves you

But perhaps she has given me the strength and the madness to write about the things that I once desired so long to put against the world.

Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.

You worry too much." "Because you worry not enough.

I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.

I just love the gifts you bring me for lunch. Other girls get diamonds. Me? I get mayhem and blood – and all before noon. Thanks, Tate. (Simone)

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.