A burnt finger remember the fire.

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.

Some of my best ideas come from when I'm sitting on the toilet.

Faith doesn't mean you never doubt. It only means you never act upon your doubts.

I am simply trying to struggle through life trying to do God's bidding.

Human beings were held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies. If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.

Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

The purpose of the Reichsautobahnen is to become the roads of Adolf Hitler.

I was out there for 12 days. There are more beggars in Soho than there are in Kabul.

If people use common sense and their own guiding moral compass, I think they'll generally stay out of trouble.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.