The Nature of This 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.

If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.

Usually we're on the same page. Other times I'm in a whole other book"~ Arika Wolly

Everything gets better with the touch of love.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

You know, I do projects that I really care about. I hope I'll stand by that until the day I die!

I think the writer is always the creator, because he's starting with nothing, but the actor comes in and gives flesh and blood.

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

Progress equals happiness.