Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

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.

After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?

If you remain ‘insincere’ to one person, then that person will hold you back from going to moksha!

I held her like tomorrow would not come. It stitched me, if only for a second...

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.

Sarah Palin made her debut as a Fox News analyst. They finally found a job that she's not under-qualified for.

Do not turn back when you are just at the goal.

So many ideas come to you and you want to try them all, but you can't. You're like a mosquito in a nudist colony, you don't know where to start.

I'm bleeding, I'm not just making conversation.

I want people to expect more from me because I expect more. If you don't set goals high, you're not trying.