Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

In America, money takes the place of God.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.

I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.

The world is a wheel always turning.

Creativity is when a stupid clever soul gets up from bed and does amazing things that makes the world think he is wise.

A floating leaf has more to boast about than a sinking ship.

I've always been freaked out in my mind performing.

The jobs left, and the factories closed... the wealth, strength and confidence of America has disappeared over the horizon.

The study of Zen is a retraining. It is a series of new ways, not just one way, to learn to use your mind more efficiently.

Sometimes I just turn on the TV and I'm like, wait a minute, that guy [Donald Trump]? It's incredible that he did all those things and he still won. It's hard to process.

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

Work with people who I feel like I'm on the same page with, there's no amount of money in the world that compares to that.

Whatever shift is necessary is dependent on the scale on which it can be implemented, which is to say in your local community and family.

I don't believe in delivering four times a year and then also delivering things that are not season appropriate.