I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Disbelief in GOD is like living in the city and denying the people who have been to the country and tell you about it.

People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.

Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.

These are the same people who believe, in some cases, the federal government should not play any role in providing health care to our people or protecting the environment.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Thy face is mine eye, and mine is thine.

Contrary to what people think, I'm no politician, and when I have something to say I say it through my movies.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.