[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

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.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Because I’ve gotten older, I worry that there will be a steep decline in my talent, but I promise not to let the same thing happen to my passion for writing.

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

Even when you disagree with her, she electrifies your mind.

The U.N. power comes from concerted action of the governments.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.

I love being vulnerable. It's scary. I feel like the best stuff that I have ever written can come from real vulnerable places.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches.