Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

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.

Everyone who fights always fight with a purpose in mind.

Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.

I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Science is prediction, not explanation.

We live in a world alive with holy moments. We need only take the time to bring these moments into the light.

South Carolina is not a state; it is a cult.

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

There is only one romance the Soul's.