Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

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.

the path of politics should be cleared with the sword of the constitution

The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk too much because it’s rare that we’re listened to.

I am sure that music was never meant to sound this harsh, this painful.

Take the side of truth, you'll be right every time.

Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.

The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

Well, I really didn't enjoy some of the movies I did when I was young.

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"