For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

I don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.

It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

I cannot be defined by what other people think.

You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.