I like people who don't tell you what you want to hear.

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.

We are all children of one God and the only thing that separates us is our ego

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

Joy is the highest expression of love.

I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.

I believe that sometimes people come into your life at exactly the right moment to give you exactly what you need at that moment.

It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.