As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

No matter where you're from, your dreams are valid.

What I've learned from myself is that I don't have to be anybody else. Myself is good enough.

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

There is no shame in black beauty.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and feeling happiness in spite of it.

It’s the sensation that gives rise to ego or personal identity. All the external and internal experiences of life are experienced only with the sensation.

When lies have been accepted for some time, the truth always astounds with an air of novelty.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

In my mind, it is certainly much nicer to end on a high note rather than on a Stout Pig.

If positivity is what you put out in the universe, positivity is what you get.

To awaken human emotion is the highest level of art.

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

If one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

For me, honestly, it's not about individual accomplishments, individual award. It's about what I've got to do and how I can contribute to the team.