Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean?

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself.

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. 

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.

Life has a tendency to just happen. But it happens because we make choices. The life you create and design for yourself is going to accumulate from the choices you make over time. Sure, there are unexpected things that can derail dreams. But we can control where we put our focus, and if we choose to put one dream ahead of another.

We start life with many big dreams–things we want to accomplish, create, build and experience. But if you ask anyone past the age of 40 what happened to all the dreams they had, they will most likely answer; Life.

Life is not fair, get used to it.

“Life is not fair — get used to it!”

I would counsel people to go to college, because it's one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

If African farmers can use improved seeds and better practices to grow more crops and get them to market, then millions of families can earn themselves a better living and a better life.

According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first weeks of life.