You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.

Cruelty to animals is an enormous injustice; so is expecting those on the lowest rung of the economic ladder to do the dangerous, soul-numbing work of slaughtering sentient beings on our behalf.

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Growing into your future ... requires a dedication to caring for yourself as if you were rare and precious, which you are, and regarding all life around you as equally so, which it is.

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it.

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.

As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

A threat should never be spoken, your enemy should not be told of your intentions. Either take decisive action or refrain from it, but never threaten

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

Bristol Rovers were 4-0 up at half time, with four goals in the first half.

In any war, people will pay the price.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.

A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.

I hope we get pulled over, he says. I'd like to see how the cop responds to a black man wearing a Confederate T-shirt over a black dress.

It is all we have left to us. And while it is more than I ever dared dream, it is nowhere near enough.