Look for the best in everybody

The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.

When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.

Don’t complain; just work harder.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

Sacrifice, sacrifice.

Them lady poets must not marry, pal.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

I like someone I can have fun with and who can be more laid-back than I am, because it calms me down.

Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

I love film, and I think it's so important for kids to be educated about films and real life subjects that films cover.

The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.