If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

In 90 percent of cases, you could tell within a page or two whether the writer could write.

Consumer culture and the capitalist mindset have taught us to substitute acts of personal consumption (or enlightenment) for organised political resistance

Creativity is just connecting things.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

We need practice solving problems.

I'm not fat. I'm fluffy!

The key to real and lasting change lies somewhere between what you know and what you do. It's what you think.

A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.

I believe feminism is grounded in supporting the choices of women even if we wouldn’t make certain choices for ourselves.

One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.