"Tell me what company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are."

"There's no sauce in the world like hunger."

"No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly."

"I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way."

"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before."

"The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet."