I've always had an involved imagination.

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.

She was as bored as her brother would have been, and had not his gift of listening beneath words.

You’re my wife, Suki. That gives me every right.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

It's important to me to just experience as much as possible and to be able to just work and meet new people and have different experiences and have as much knowledge as I can.

Persistence is a characteristic to which success invariably surrenders.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

A good woman is known by what she does; a good man by what he doesn't.

The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on it's shroud.