You can’t eat beauty. It doesn’t feed you.

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.

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

I'd love to design stuff that I'd like to wear and that other people could wear, too.

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

Science ... is organized common sense.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

However impressed we may be with NVC concepts, it is only through practice and application that our lives are transformed.

How is MS-DOS like MSG? Both raise your blood pressure and give you a tightening sensation around your forehead.