If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content.

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.

Always carry with you a pen and a notebook or a journal to write the thoughts that flashes in a moments.

I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers.

I'm still younger than Jagger... Most people are.

The sense of identity provides the ability to experience one's self as something that has continuity and sameness, and to act accordingly.

The best pictures are yet to be made.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.

There is no right language or wrong language any more than there are right or wrong clothes.