... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

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.

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

Yet happiness isn't something you chase, it's something you are. It's something you think, it's something you believe.

Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow.

We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.