Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

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.

...if a man’s thirst is quenched by power, then all other desires are of no worth to him.

The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.

I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate.

The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.

The sexiest woman musician is Alicia Keys.

When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

I'm fairly sure I didn't show enough gratitude to my employers, and I'm sorry for that.