You can't make a difference unless you are different.

Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.

We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips.

For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.

Do not allow your life to just fly out of your own hands. Do not allow your life to just disappear into some abstract mirage.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

I must have true love or nothing.

Id love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.