Helped are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will be constant.

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.

On the other side of worry you find hope

For Death's life to be extinguished... now that was something to truly dread.

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

You've seen things through my eyes.

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it.

Marriage: a souvenir of love.

I had a chance to play with the best musicians that were coming through because I was pretty good myself or else they wouldn't have tolerated with me.