How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

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 Future is as avoidable as the past is alterable, for the latter is, after all, a consequence of the former: A combination of choice and fate.

Coffee is not about having something to drink in cool weather, it's about having something to drink when you are not sleeping

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

I think there's something in the fact that it's hard to be good looking and funny. You have to have an oddball quality people have to sympathise with you to find you funny.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

End times aren't supposed to be very pretty.

Reversing global warming will take a World War II level of mobilization. It is the work of tens of millions, not hundreds of thousands.

I've been dating a lot. I've met some very interesting people, and I've had some horrible blind dates.

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.