Love is big; love can hold anger, love can even hold hatred. It's about the intention of what you want it to do.

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.

It's all about educating people to value you as much a they value themselves. If you respect your time, others will too.

Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don’t let their opinion blind you from your reality. You were not meant to live their life

There are so many more important things to think about than that elusive emotion called love.

I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome, ' and then we start dating.

I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept

Harm no other beings. They are just your brothers and sisters.

Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

This is not a skill problem, this is a will problem. Does America have the will to make education a priority? We know the things that work. Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.