Look, I'm going to find a way to be happy, and I'd really love to be happy with you, but if I can't be happy with you, then I'll find a way to be happy without you.

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

People are more important than things.

Go out and do for others what somebody did for you.

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

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

Another way to be prepared is to think negatively. Yes, I'm a great optimist. but, when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst case scenario. I call it 'the eaten by wolves factor.' If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves? One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist, is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose. There are a lot of things I don't worry about, because I have a plan in place if they do.