“Don’t let what you want make you forget about what you have…”

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”

“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”

“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”

“There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You think the dreamers will find the dreamers and the realists will find the realists but more often than not, the opposite is true. You see, the dreamers need the realists to keep them from soaring too close to the sun and the realists, well, without the dreamers, they might not ever get off the ground.”

“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.”