The best fighter is never angry.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

I think the way to understand Teach for America is as a leadership development program.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me.

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

All work is easy work.

We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.

My grandparents are from Mexico, so I grew up with great Mexican food.

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything.