For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

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.

Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.

She's somebody's mother boys you know For all she's aged and poor and slow.

I've never sent a Tweet. I think I have an account but I don't know who runs it. I've never done one in my life.

If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

Being a member of the Church has never placed any roadblocks in my personal and professional life.

Cats learned how to fly that evening.

Human beings, as far as I can tell, seem to be divided into two subspecies -- the resigned, who live in quiet desperation, and the exhausted, who exist in restless agitation.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.

Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward’s. I touched the cool miracle of his skin, and I was home.