empathy is more powerful than sympathy

He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up.

At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.

From my anger, frustration, and hurt, I wrote the short story that would later become 'The Hate U Give.'

The first time I went on a serious run was when I was 21 years old at Stanford University. From 21 to 30, I continued the tradition and ran 10 miles every year on my birthday.

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

It's the only way I think I'm ever going to walk away from the game, is to go ahead and say I'm going to, and then I've got to. There's no turning back now - win, lose or draw.

Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.