"It is a profound truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought."

"Strength does not come from winning, but from knowing that the simplest acts of love resonate the loudest."

"My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them."

"To leave a mark on the world, remember that the strength of a community lies in its compassion."

"I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess."

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."

"It is a profound truth that where compassion abides, fear and resentment lose their dominion."

"War is a defeat for humanity."