A great social reformer.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels, I might really be onto something.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

We are in a social and political context in which the norm is to punish poor folks of color rather than to educate and empower them with economic opportunity.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, never being in business, never really negotiating, give away for nothing things they shouldn't give away.

Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world.

I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.