I don't know why anyone does the job without that pressure.

Beauty is more than just shining for others. You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.

I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

Hate me for who I am, I don't care. At least I'm not pretending to be someone I'm not.

I think what I've come to now is, that fear is good; it's what life is about. You need to be afraid because fear gives you the strength to carry on important tasks.

If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.

The strangest part about being famous is you don't get to give first impressions anymore. Everyone already has an impression of you before you meet them.

It's okay,' you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

When you invent something, you're drawing on reservoirs of knowledge that you already have. It's only when you're faithful to the truth that something can come to you from the outside.

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

The only good dictator is a dead one.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.

Our beds are empty two-thirds of the time. Our living rooms are empty seven-eighths of the time. Our office buildings are empty one-half of the time. It's time we gave this some thought.

Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.