You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself.

We are the superhero, none of us individually, but all of us together.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

Stop listening to people telling us we need to hate each other

Making an un-perfect decision is far, far better than not making a decision, which is the worst possible decision you could make.

Being silly is still allowed, not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness, so be thoughtful and silly

Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty.

‎Sometimes I feel like when someone asks me if I believe in God, it's like a blind person asking if I'm black, so that they can put me in the right category.

I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

[Motherhood] is an incredibly huge challenge. You need support. You need resources. You need access to childcare and good safe schools.

African agriculture today is among, or is, the most under-capitalized in the world. Only seven percent of arable land in Africa is irrigated, compared to 40 percent in Asia.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

The violence in the Old Testament and New Testament is descriptive. The violence in the Koran is for all time and it is prescriptive. And Mohammed said "I have been made victorious through terror.".

Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest.

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire.

If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.