My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.