People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

Your uniqueness is your greatest strength, not how well you emulate others.

The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't

I met a woman who told me she wasn't attracted to Asians. No worries, I said. I'm not attracted to racists.

Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought

People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.

Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another day and understand why you lived in the day!

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Keith Richards outlived Jim Fixx, the runner and health-nut dude. The plot thickens.

I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.

You get kicked around long enough, you become a professor of pain.

It is increasingly hard for young white people to find jobs, and I can understand why white parents are worried about the future.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

I just really want to do stand-up and act in stuff that I like. And do stuff that makes me really happy.

Everyone who was here [Sheraton Universal Hotel] when I won still works here, so the two biggest moments in my career are intersecting. It's so cool that I can say "hi" to everybody.