The purpose of life is to live your dreams, you should never smother your wishes.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

The breathtaking view at the mountaintop is compensation for all of the breath lost whilst sweating towards it.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.