Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

We can't act until we know who we are and what we believe.

The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all the future.

One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.

I don't really have time [to babysit my twin cousins]. And, well, I actually have my own babysitter sometimes.

Healthcare should be a human right and not a commodity for sale.

I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion.

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.

It's not rocket science. Hong Kong has 95% tax compliance, because it's code is only 4 pages long with a 15% flat tax.