Even now, I find that no matter what has happened, I still have that trust. I have a lot of trust, that people can be better than they are.

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.

In the world of the Machiguenga, sadness could be equated with anger, and anger was a perilous emotion, by which a foreigner could lose his life.

The best way to create a better future is to do your best at this very moment.

It's not the nineteenth century

Allah created my tongue to speak. I don't have freedom to come , because Allah created my feet to walk. So I walk, and I speak, and I look, and I hear according to what God says.

What am I doing here?

Having an object that symbolizes freedom might make a person happier than actually getting the freedom it represents.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

When Obama talks about raising taxes on the rich, he's looking at me.

Ego & Hype have no place in business.

In chess it is more important to frustrate your opponent's strategy than to be obsessed with your own.