If somebody can do something 80 percent as good as you think you would have done it yourself, then you've got to let it go.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.