Quotes

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.

I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.

Music has always been a part of my life, and it helps me a lot because it speaks for me when I can't speak for myself.

The projects that I've been fortunate enough to do are all projects where I followed my heart. I didn't follow the money or the names. It's all about reflecting my life and my art.

Life should be art, right?

TV can be a thread between all of us, and it can be a powerful tool to examine life and love and what we all have in common as humans.

I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we're so used to being excluded.

'Atlanta' is really trying to put that out there: these are just the lives of these people in this city, and this city is its own breathing, living thing, too. So how do you navigate through life, especially with dreams and aspirations in a world that tells you that you don't deserve to have them.

If you don't want to play and get concussed, then don't play. It's your career, it's your life. You have to make that decision on your own.

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

There's so much life to live, and if you just keep on breathing and keep on walking, you will get through everything.

I've had a big heart my whole life; all the Korn fans know that. A lot of people told me that I was different.

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

I worshipped money so much that it ruined my life. Money is not my god. I just want to manage His money for Him, for the poor people, the lost kids. I just love everybody.

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

The keyboard is my whole life. My life is centered around either sitting at my keyboard or driving my car. Those are the two most important things, more than anything else. Being at my keyboard, it's the happiest time for me.

I feel oddly at peace with the ups and downs of pandemic life. They're not too different from the ups and downs of deployment life, which I've experienced a lot the last few years as my husband, an Army Special Forces officer, has been overseas.

When I married into the military a few years ago, I was failing at navigating the realities of deployment alone. When I turned to the military family community, their tried and true coping skills changed my life.

I've spent most of my life like most Americans - without any immediate connection to active duty military.

This is the hardest part of military family life - being away from each other.

Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat.