HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator's magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishment without ceasing.

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.

Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

You can ignore your heart and mind, but it will always find its way home.

We're not perfect. We're a work in progress. But man, America has gotten a lot of things right.

Love comes unseen; we only see it go.

For me, it's the reactions from the audiences that are golden. If they enjoy it, then half the battle has been won.

Don't try to skin your rabbit and keep it as a pet too.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

Measure your success by your inner scorecard versus an outer one.