Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.

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.

Don't Judge People By Their Outer Appearances, Even The Bright Beautiful Moon Has Its Dark Side Which It Keeps Hidden All The Time....

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

When you are forty half of you belongs to the past. . . And when you are seventy nearly all of you.

It is a terrible thought, to contemplate that an immense number of mediocre thinkers are occupied with really influential matters.

We as beings are very contradictory, complicated creatures that work in our best interest and against our best interest. In a certain way, I want my work to have all that messiness.

Let go of resentment, for it will hold you back. Do not worry about what could've been, what is to come is what matters.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

In this Year of Faith, let us remember that faith is not something we possess, but something we share. Every Christian is an apostle.

My wife doesn't like Football but she watches it just for Messi.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.