HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

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.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Going to the gym is great for your body, but it's also great for your mind.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

There is ripe fruit over your head.

One of the wonderful ways to celebrate women is to hire women.

We only think about the difficult people and the horrible things that happen. That's what gets all the media attention.

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.