I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

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.

What God has written for your life, no human being can alter it.

since words are all we have of wings.

I believe that the choice not to have a choice is a choice in itself.

A little toxin is the best tonic.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

I believe that President [George W.] Bush was correct. I thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and I supported him steadfastly, and once we committed we should see it through.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

I don't really like listening to the radio so much.

There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.