Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

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.

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.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Listening intently to someone is one of the best ways i know of to honor that person.

They're fancy talkers about themselves writers. If I had to give young writers advice I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

No scientist ever believes that he has the final answer or the ultimate truth on anything.

I always really curious to see how people interpret things. I know my version, and I'm kind of bored with my version so I want to see their version.

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

I don’t like Drake as a person. He’s just fake to me.