There's no destiny

Overcome obstacles as they come rather than worry about when they will arrive.

I smiled back and I thoughthow incredible that was, that they would find the time to smile. There was goodness in the world still, even if you couldn’t always see it.

The problem with telling people that they can do anything they want to do is that it is objectively, factually inaccurate. Otherwise the whole world would just be ballet dancers and pop stars.

I stared back at him with something that, I realize now, was close to cellular recognition. In one glance, he recalled my father, my first boyfriend, my college love, my future.

I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

Research in this country is going down.

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.

Childhood friendship is the most beautiful memory that can't ever be replaced.