Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.