I have fought and kicked and fasted and prayed and cursed and cried myself to the point of existing.

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.

Do not trust a person who never fails. Failure is the incubator for character development.

A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. So, keep love in your heart if not your best friend today will turn to your worst enemy tomorrow.

You need to fully believe in yourself and your capabilities for others to believe in you. Destiny favours those who believe that things will work out rather than those who give up in despair!

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.

We're also confident that gamers are going to love our vision of the future.

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.

We can make an impression on this world if the world doesn't make too much impression on us.

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.