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

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've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

Diesel sucked air. "You keep fondling me like that, and I might have to marry you.""I'm not fondling you. I'm looking for the keys!""Could you look a little more gently? You're scaring my boys.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides never decides.

A man's pride can be his downfall, and he needs to learn when to turn to others for support and guidance.

If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

Words are one thing, deeds are quite another.

Аfter all the beats and rhymes, I felt like everybody around me was rapping and so I was like.