Words to Live By: Betty White, Sania Mirza, David Bowie, and more

You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.

Betty White, actor

Be a fountain, not a drain.

Rex Hudler, former baseball player

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult.

Alden Nowlan, poet

We don't take wins for granted; we try hard every time.

Sania Mirza, tennis player

Art has the capacity to create or imagine an alternative future.

Sudhanva Deshpande, theatre actor and director

Don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

David Bowie, musician

Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.

Alice Walker, author and activist