If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Because my mom always told me that I could. From a very early age, I felt comfortable leading.

There is nothing wrong being different. Being peculiar actually makes you stand out from others.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

We fear the thing we want the most.

You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.

We are wrong to fear superiority of mind and soul; this superiority is very moral, for understanding everything makes a person tolerant and the capacity to feel deeply inspires great goodness.

No, I am who I am. Im not going to change for anybody.

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.