In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

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.

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

Like water leaking through a dam, " said Piper."Yeah, " smiled Percy. "We've got a dam hole.""What?" Piper asked."Nothing, " he said. "Inside joke.

When you stop living for luxuries, you understand the real meaning of life.

I figured maybe I had some talent as an investor… since it seemed like I was only a half-assed entrepreneur.

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

So many people mistakenly think that the rest of his [John Cassavetes] pictures and the ones we did were improvised, which isn't true. He wrote all the rest of them.

Definitely I had a lot of times where I was really hard on myself. Really frustrated. But I never felt like I had someplace else to go. Just had to stay here and deal with this.

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

If Dracula can’t see his reflection, how come his parting’s always neat?

Saying We will destroy terrorism is about as meaningful as saying: We shall annihilate mockery.