We can learn to be the catalysts for our own change.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

One of the most important milestones we'll all hit along the way is the moment when we finally own our unique point of view and realize how priceless it is.

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.

Expect to have hope rekindled. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Grace is available for each of us every day - our spiritual daily bread - but we've got to remember to ask for it with a grateful heart and not worry about whether there will be enough for tomorrow.

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Failure or success do not happen by accident, they are the compound interest of action or inaction.

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

A home without books is a body without soul.

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

Misguided people sometimes create misguided ideas. Some of my ancestors were Oromo. How can I colonize myself?

I almost wish we would've filmed a whole fake tampon commercial around ["I'm With Her"].

Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.

Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.