I went to the Independent Spirit Awards and won.

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.

His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding.

Don't die a pauper, don't die a commoner and a weakling.

Sebastian is in love with his own childhood. That will make him very unhappy.

Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

We can all humbly say in the sincerity of faith, "I am loved; I am called; I am secure."

I don't think I could not have been with an artist of some kind, someone creative.

There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work.

If you can find any other view of the world which agrees over the entire range where things have already been observed, but disagrees somewhere else, you have made a great discovery.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.