Life at Hamilton: Sometimes You Throw Away Your Shot, Only to Find Your Story

happiness isn’t about what you do. It’s how you do it. Whatever it is.

What makes us unique is not the walls that separate us, but the things we use to help break them down. And that’s why I love the Oscars. They aren’t just an awards ceremony for great acting. They are a celebration of sledge hammers.

We forget, almost entirely, that we float through unending space on a tiny rock—an infinitesimally small piece of dust careening through the cosmos. And because we forget this miraculous thing, we find stuff to fill our time. Most of it is benign, and a lot of it is beautiful. But surprisingly, not all of it, because we also believe in and fight ab

You can’t necessarily be whatever you want. But you can keep finding things you want to be.