You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.

There can be no light without shadow.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities they will never come.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew how to do, graphic design.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.

Michelle Obama is a powerful example of someone who has learned how to align her actions with her values, manage boundaries across domains of life, and embrace change courageously.

Most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons.