If you’re going to have childhood dreams you should have great parents who let you pursue them and express your creativity

I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

I'll take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long term.

It's interesting, the secrets you decide to reveal at the end of your life.

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.

The best gift an educator can give is to get somebody to become self reflective.