I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

Struggle shapes our character. And character dictates what we will become.

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.

First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.

. . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?

We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.

You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.

We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.