I'm pretty awesome at making salad dressings.

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.

Laughter is the only medicine, without side effects.

I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.

An action made by a unwitting man, shall not define, nor justify a common though and interpretation.

It is my opinion that a story worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Property is my major investment. My accountant has put money into various long-term savings arrangements. To be honest, I am a bit vague about all that stuff.

I agree that [marriage] should be treated like a business deal. But every business deal has to have its own terms and its own kind of currency.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.