Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

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.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

Creatures whose main spring is curiosity will enjoy the accumulating of fact far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Whoever invented soccer should be worshipped as God.

Our eyes are always blind when they view the future.

I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well.

Love and spiritual values received from parents are the strongest assets for a child to face the various trials of adulthood.

why couldn't someone , somewhere , want her for her ?