Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

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.

It is far more difficult to ask the right question than it is to find the correct answer.

Whenever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. I have been helped, supported, encouraged and nurtured by people of all races, creeds, colors and dreams.

Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

It is not overwhelmingly difficult for a committed group of players with only average individual basketball skills to put together a very good team defense.

For me, the soul is connected to a higher being. It's not about religion; it's about connecting to your true self - your truth, the truth inside of you, the one you were born with.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new!

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

Chronological time does not exist; what indeed exists is esoteric time, because life is an eternal instant.

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough.