I used to think that having lots of friends meant that you were happy. That's really not true. Having the right friends means that you're happy.

I've discovered that every time I've reached a milestone I think I'm there, but there's another there waiting for me.

The biggest strength is being able to have perspective. Get the distance, and it enables you to be able to laugh at yourself.

One of the best practices in the manual of human existence is to assist people who need help when you can safely do so. The best people help those who need help.

Happy to me is not what I thought happy was. Happy is actually better, because it includes room for sadness. A definition of success must leave room for failure, because it's part of it.

It saddened me that sometimes shopping was far more perilous than dealing with zombies and vampires.

That always has been one of my dreams, to be able to appeal to a bunch of people.

Dance is the fastest, most direct route to the truth.

My biggest obsession is to show Africans and the world who the people of Africa really are.

And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?

I am not closed off to anything right now. That is what I was saying about not having any more walls up. I don't want to deprive myself of any bit of life.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

If all we needed were ideas and positive thinking, then we all would have had ponies when we were kids and we would all be living our "dream life" now.