I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces.

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.

Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity

It is the length of the journey that ripens the joy of the outcome.

Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies

I bet all I had on a thing called love

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.

Please be informed, there is a Santa Claus.

You have to work at it if you want to be a good smoker. Especially today with all the non-smoking world constantly harassing you.

Never trust a storyteller," he says. "We're all of us liars.

You do not install knowledge.