In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.

Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt.""Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty."I hate wonder bread, " Jason said.Together, they charged.

Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.

I deal with spiritual truth which should never be sold and need never be bought. When you are ready it will be given.

The first step towards the evangelizing of the world is the christianizing of the church.