It has been proved that the land can exist without the country - and be better for it; it has not been proved ... that the country can exist without the land.

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.

Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready.

Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.

...home lies in the things you carry with you everywhere and not the ones that tie you down.

Do it big or stay in bed.

A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems.

Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like a breath on the surface of a pane of glass.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

The hairflip is something that just can’t be taught

The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.