I will forever remind you that you are gifted, strong and beautiful, exactly as you are.Will you forever remind yourself, too?

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Please don't give me words

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which, as any American high school student can tell you, was an act that apparently had something to do with stamps.

God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal.

The only way to resist colonialism is through education.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.