Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

I'll probably take the prize for the most irrelevant degree. Although some of the things now where they study, you know: "post feministic colonial film theory" - those kind of majors, yeah, that's probably worse. But I was, you know, classics, Greek and Latin, like what's more irrelevant than dead languages, you know?

I believe that everything happens for a reason, and what seems bad at first might in fact be something of a blessing.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

Our times might emphasize equality, which we then mistake for the need for everyone to be the same, but what we really mean by this is the equal chance for people to express their differences, to let a thousand flowers bloom.

Everything is personal.