True leadership is about pulling forth the gold in everyone and believing in people before they deserve it.

Beans are a warm cloak against economic cold.

The world will continue to be hit by natural disasters and hateful mass killings, but communities bounce back stronger, so keep going.

If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.

Hatred, like straw, makes for a lumpy mattress.

Being in Portland is cool. I have some good friends here and the general feeling might be a little more welcoming.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

I'd grown up poor; I had no idea what it was like to be comfortable.