Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

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.

Few people ever kill for the right reasons.

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

No one's dream job involves a kiosk.

I never wear the same shoe twice.

Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.

We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.