Freedom, after all, is like love: the more you give to others, the more you have.

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.

You cannot wear every expectation. Consider putting aside one's that don't fit.

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.

And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

I don't feel in any way obligated to remain current with the culture. I feel no social obligation whatsoever. I trust my morality in the narrow path I trek through the world as I work.

Every reader is different. There's no book that's inappropriate for every person, but there are people who cannot handle everything.

I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

Love cannot be measured over time and space. It is not how long you know each other, it is how well you know each other.

You have to be around people you trust; otherwise you can't do anything - you're afraid, you're paranoid, and you can't do any work.