You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

Just start dancing and the band will find you.

You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.

There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

Dare to outlearn your best performance.

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

Growing up I always knew I had a deviated septum on the right side of my nose, which caused trouble breathing. The older I got, the worse it got.

who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.

Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans.

Hope is not a method.

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

Long before I was a success, my parents made me feel like I could be one.