It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

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.

There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated.

Make it stop, " Vincent murmured, coming out of sleep and pulling the blanket over his head. "I think your mutt is howling for you.

I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up.

American influence is not what it used to be.

Most of our love is shabby stuff, but there is always a thin line of gold, the bit of pure love on which all the rest depends -- and which redeems all the rest.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Happiness depends only on your mind. When the mind is free of past impressions and future cravings, happiness is there.

You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.

Legalism breeds a sense of entitlement that turns us into complainers.