It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone.

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.

The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.

Being popular is important. Otherwise people might not like you.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

All must respect those who respect themselves.

There are tensions abroad where people don't understand our attachment to the freedom of speech, we've seen the protests, and I would say that in France all beliefs are respected.

There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.

Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

In England we are sort of very awkward.

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.