In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

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.

Bob, I am grateful for yourThree letter name.It's another reminder of homeOf a world predictableOf a life I had.

Error sometimes supplies the surprise that makes life interesting.

Ask yourself whether the problem will matter in a year or two. If not, it may be a trivial issue unworthy of your concern.

Their eyes are precisely similar, and they are those of Catherine Earnshaw.

There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

There's a famous saying: "If you pass the square ball in your own defensive third it must not be intercepted."

True love usually results in a hostage situation.

The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians.

I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had.

The chameleon Love can feed on the air