There's always a sense of newness with acting, because every role, you come to every role fresh.

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.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

Of all this world's beauty and miracles, brilliance and simplicity-of all nature's graces-children are truly the most remarkable.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

There are a lot of people out there who think that I am their worst enemy, and I don't even care if these people exist

If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

I spent four indifferent years at Goodison, but they were great years.

People been killing each other since forever and hurting each other since forever and taking advantage of each other since forever.

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.