If you live in an oppressive society, you've got to be resilient. You can't let each little thing crush you. You have take every encounter and make yourself larger, rather than allow yourself to be diminished by it.

I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.