We are powerful beyond measure, and we must stand powerfully in the face of injustice and hate.United.

There's just as much wisdom in knowing when to keep quiet as there is in knowing when to speak up. Use your voice wisely.

In my experience, it is always worth it to find the love that lives inside you. No matter how deep you have to dig sometimes.

Give people a chance.

Shit works out.

A happiness trick:do more things that make you happy, and you'll be happy more often.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

No one determines your truth but you.You can’t paint your own self-portrait with someone else’s hand.

I finally stopped seeking in others everything I could only find in myself.

We can’t heal what we refuse to acknowledge.

I can’t control my feelings, but I’m learning to have a say in how much my feelings control me.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

The inertia of the mind urges it to slide down the easy slope of imagination, rather than to climb the steep slope of introspection.

We love those whom we serve (p. 26)

Leaders in the body of Christ must be humble and broken from the Lord’s hand to be truly useful in His kingdom.

There had to be one universe — just this one — where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet.

The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises.

I keep active because I have not announced my retirement, because that is something that takes time and you have to plan it. Plus, it is something that the Dominican people expected.