I'm the most stubborn person I know.

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.

Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.

Work becomes worship when you dedicate it to God and perform it with an awareness of his presence.

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

For a product to really be sustainable, it's really got to deliver the goods for the end user. That drives the whole rest of the equation.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

Love is a fleeting emotion, to reach true nirvana one must know themselves and forsake love, for it breeds contempt

I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.

I had a lot of jobs. I worked over 50 jobs before I rapped for a living.

Wit is like caviar - it should be served in small portions and not spread about like marmalade.