Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

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.

Keep working when grace abound.

Roses do not bloom the same time as daisies.

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

You can't have a healthy society unless you have healthy companies that are making a profit, that are employing people and that are growing.

In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles.

All of my life doing interviews, comedy has been my favorite thing, comedians are my favorite people.

They were soul mates, my mother and father. They claimed to adore each other, as if the word 'adore' meant 'argue with ceaselessly.

I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

I hope you will attain enlightenment. I am here to tell you that you already have! But you don't know... The difference between the Buddha and us is the confidence in knowing that he was enlightened.