Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
It's always too early to quit.
Who seeks shall find.
Never complain and never explain.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.