Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

I think on some level, role models are overrated If you require a role model who looks just like you to be something you wanna be and you can’t find one, is that a reason to not be what you wanna be? No!

If you don’t know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he’s just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It’s one world, pal. We’re all neighbors.

Treat people like you want to be treated; live and let live; and also give the other person a break now and then.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it’s not like you’re going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

Compassion should be unbiased and based on the recognition that others have the right to happiness, just like you.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren’t like you, looking at how many records you’ve sold, looking at the venue size you’re selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.

Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful.

I used to be very self-conscious. I used to wish I was pretty. My cousin Georgia always taught me that if you smile, people will like you. Sometimes people will say something you don’t like, and you get angry a bit, but you just smile. You let it go by, even if you really would like to choke ’em. By smiling, I think I’ve made more friends than if I was the other way.

Be able to set a table so that you feel like you’re dining, not just sitting and eating.

I just want to say that um, I’m just really, really shocked at like how nice our world is because it’s just so nice. Like oh my God! Like, the other day, like I was sitting there and I saw these magazines and they said I was pregnant, and like, it’s so true. Like America, believe everything you read. Because, like, you’re smart and I’m stupid. Like for real. Come on y’all.

My father established our relationship when I was seven years old. He looked at me and said, You know, I brought you in this world, and I can take you out. And it don’t make no difference to me, I’ll make another one look just like you.

I guess no matter what your family is like, you’re not surprised.

Minority is about being an individual. It’s like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that individual you want to be your entire life.

I do a lot of pivoting. There was one cover I did of Donald Trump, after he won Iowa, it seemed like it was over for him at the beginning of the primary process. I was given the go-ahead on it right away. I drew it and he won the next primary, and suddenly, the cover didn’t make any sense. And then, after the Democratic National Convention, it seemed like he was finished, Hillary Clinton seemed to be gaining strength, so the cover ran then. So it seemed like you can come up with an idea and it can be rendered useless two days later and then all of a sudden it’s relevant again.

I mean, think about [the phrase ‘love the sinner, hate the sin.’] Isn’t it like saying, ‘I love left-handed people but hate that they’re left-handed.’ Is that really love? Or is that saying, ‘I’m willing to love you as I’d like you to be, not as you are’? Either God’s love is unconditional or it’s not.

Your best T-shirt should be like your bed, it just feels like you are home when you are in it.

Never act like you want it, darlin’. Act like you wouldn’t own it if they paid you. Tell them it’s dirty, broken…a useless thing. Then make an offer.

No matter what you look like or think you look like, you’re special and loved and perfect just the way you are.

Body language is essential for an actress, even if you don’t use your body in an athletic way. Just to be free, to use it like your voice. A body can be small and have incredible violence. A body talks.

Disassemble the cells of a sponge (by passing them through a sieve, for instance), then dump them into a solution, and they will find their way back together and build themselves into a sponge again. You can do this to them over and over, and they will doggedly reassemble because, like you and me and every other living thing, they have one overwhelming impulse: to continue to be.

It’s great to express yourself and tell other people’s stories and get into the minds of people who aren’t like you.

I like to be real private; you don’t always want everyone around you – even when they like you.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren’t doing it for the money. Their titles weren’t fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.

Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I’ve forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn’t it just like you to bring me to my knees?

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

If you could use your brain like you use your ass.

Zola Budd: so small, so waif-like, you literally can’t see her. But there she is

Sometimes I forget what I put in. I want to capture things in that way, where you’re looking into your memory, a dream or hallucination. The characters become a mixture of archetypes, [and] that’s what I like. You’re trying to figure it out and your brain wants to categorize things, but it can’t because of this motion. You want to solve the problem, but it never gets solved. It’s like when you read a really good book and the story never leaves you.