I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

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.

Fear stagnation

Pushing away unwanted feelings and situations, equals inviting them to return back with a greater strength.

Jesus loves me! This I know As He loved so long ago Taking children on His knee Saying, Let them come to Me.

The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board.

It's only an interim trip. I love the music, but it's really giving me a way in which I can comfortably explore my art.

I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

Face of the spring moon- about twelve years old, I'd say.

Changes made by management today make no improvement.