I need to be creative, make art every day for my own sanity.

Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

I'm always so raw and unguarded. I'm always open to everything and everyone - or at least try - so I can be vulnerable and touched by everything at all times, which in turn is really inspiring.

Live and let live. You snooze, you lose. Make your life a dream and your dreams come to life.

I have terrible panic attacks. I usually get so tired from crying and being in pain that my only way out is sleeping.

Always trust your instinct.

Telling stories, making them come alive is what makes me come alive. So I try to live a life where sharing this vital search of inspiration is a must.

From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Never take your eye off the ball. Always remember that you and everyone on the team is the servant of the cause - in our case, girls' education and young women's leadership in Africa.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

One of the keys to thinking big is total focus. I think of it almost as a controlled neurosis, which is a quality I've noticed in many highly successful entrepreneurs.

The twelve months... Snowy, Flowy, Blowy, Showery, Flowery, Bowery, Hoppy, Croppy, Droppy, Breeze, Sneezy, Freezy.

The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.

If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of proper distribution were given consideration, the world could feed itself well.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

There isn't a lot of poverty literature in the young-adult world. And I don't know why that is, but I think certainly I felt a gap.