Things may move slow in the academic world, but I continue to move at a pace relative to the urgency of the moment, looking forward to the time when the academic world can catch up.

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

Truth is never negative. Only one's perception of it is.

Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.

Life as we know it is a death sentence.

"A creative life is not just for those fictional few who are "touched by the hand of God." We are all touched by the hand of God."

The silence between two notes is as beautiful and meaningful as the notes themselves.

With music and art, I can create the kind of world in which I wish to live.

One of the greatest acts of courage is having to face every day of life feeling unloved.

Looking for the good in everything is equally as misguided as looking for the bad in everything.

The courage to live in the present, between time and timelessness. No matter the circumstance, it is where life is found.

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

You can only fall in love once the next time you rise with it

Every year I make a plan. I do it. It will be done.

Someday the world is going to know who I am-just be hearing my first name.

Part of what I want to do is sort of reclaim my story - it belongs to me and to my children, who have to live with whoever their mother is.

You have to have short fingernails or they'd just break off, and you can't wear red polish - it looks like your fingers are bleeding.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.