Ultimately, wasn’t dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming.

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.

You can’t have relationships if you’re not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you.

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.

The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you’re doing right back at you.

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

Fighting to protect the people you cared for was one thing. Trusting someone you loved to fight for themselves took a different kind of strength and bravery.

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before God.

Don't be content with your judgments. They diminish you.

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.

Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.