Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories.

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.

No man is ever just one thing.

Smart people have the brains, but stupid people have the balls

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

I don't want to live in a world with blinders on.

People push my buttons, so I'm going to react.

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.

They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.

War should always be the absolute last resort.

Lucy,' he murmured, 'you have some splainin' to do.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.