Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.

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.

As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

Nature goes to the same place to create a galaxy of stars: a cluster of nebulas, a rain forest, a human body, or a thought. That place is Spirit.

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

I always felt like I sucked at everything, that I could never find the thing that I liked. I auditioned and I probably sucked, but I had decided 100 percent that this is what I wanted to do.

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Photo of POTUS mtg w speechwriters Cody Keenan and Jon Favreau today.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.