Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

All the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads.

She influenced by the positivism of her race, was gazing into the future. While he was content with the present moment, not caring to know what would be the end of their love

Frankie scanned her eyes. I don’t ask for things. I take them.

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists.

I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

The only thing surfers have in common with the rest of America is they're unemployed and they love crystal meth.

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

Get them while they're young and bend their minds.

On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.