The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

Standing over her, I took the time to admire my handy work until I realized that I had just killed a potential meal. “Damn it Bobbi, ” I snarled as I kicked her corpse. “Look what you made me do.

Adversity is the litmus of faith, and only by continuing on in a spirit of total determination and self belief do we achieve what we set out to do.

I'm battling cancer. It's another battle I intend to win.

Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

The teacher's role in discussion is to keep it going along fruitful lines - be moderating, guiding, correcting and arguing like one more students.

Changing your life means changing your past.

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need . . .