If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.