I like to aim for significance over success because rarely can you be significant and also successful, but many people can be successful and not significant.

I like to take risks as long as they're healthy, you know. They're good, smart risks.

Honestly, what keeps me grounded is my faith and my value system.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

I enjoy going to the Y. I take all the fitness classes that my dad takes; that's sort of our bonding - anything athletic, anything sports related.

When you feel deep, paralyzing fear and you don't let it stop you, that is true courage. There's never bravery without fear. Just as there's no love without hate. (M'Adoc)

Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insa

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

I don't sleep very much. I really like to work, though. I feel like a kid in a candy store.

Nothing a housewife does is of value in capitalist terms because it does not take place on the market and therefore does not contribute to the Gross National Product.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.