We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

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.

Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already underand living within the ocean.

Solitude is the best school where you can scrutinize your past mistakes and make necessary corrections for the future

Wow, that's a really good score. You must have worked really hard.

People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

You're never going to please everyone - you might as well be who God made you to be.

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

Hey, dont hate the player, hate the team.

Obviously the fans are very important to me, in fact they mean everything to me and they are the people I try to please when I play.