To this day, I love eating steak tacos before going to the red carpets.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

Appreciate the aesthetic and creativity of the nature and be grateful for being part of it.

Your mind is an entire world, your heart is an entire cosmos, and your soul is an entire universe.

You don’t have any balls?’ For once I wasn’t trying to be insulting.

You have only one true friend: that’s YOU!

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

Any time you're making a movie, all you want to do is reduce the variables of things that could possibly go wrong. I think that's why we work with the same people over and over again.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Green and black go well together, dont they?