Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

The more heavily the government regulates the market, the more competition is impeded.

If you really have integrity, there are very few people who can insult you, or honor you.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.

When I see two guys kissing, I'm like, how come I can't kiss one of those guys? They look like they're having a good time.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

The Tea Party is an organic, spontaneous movement that rose up in opposition to to the Pelosi-Reid-Obama agenda.

Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense. To make our effort, moment after moment, is our way.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for diner or coffee. And it has been like that form the beginning.

I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place...