I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

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.

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.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

People don't like getting older, but they do like changing. Staying the same is a kind of death.

It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.

My life is my message to the world

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

The Mum has the temper of a demon with a diaper rash. (Shamus)

Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.

In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.

Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.