Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

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.

Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destinations. The best is yet to come.

Leaders pull the trigger, but the "shot" belongs to you.

It is the responsibility of each new generation to restore the authority of God in every sphere of life

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.

I believe that the sight is a more important thing than the drawing.

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.