My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

There are no lungs like the ones that breathe poetry.

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Love is wind for the soul

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

I want to celebrate the sadness that makes you feel everything so deeply. I want to throw a party for the wounds that make you so unabashedly human.

Before you step out into the world today, remember that you will encounter people whose struggles you do not know. Remember the way a pair of eyes light up when greeted with kindness.

Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

Health care is not a commodity or privilege, but a human right.

But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth.

People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them they are us.

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.