My heart hurt so much I can't believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?

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.

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

Teachers were powerful enough to kill the indigenous languages: they are not powerful enough to bring them back to life.

In the journey of success, the only person that has to believe in your dreams is nobody else but yourself.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

It follows the seasons, beginning each year with the fond expectancy of springtime and ending with the hard facts of autumn.

My family was so poor we were close to eating the holes inside of doughnuts.

Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.

God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better.

Every one is special. Especially after the disappointment of last year, losing out on the last day, it is a great achievement by the lads.

Is it fair to treat a woman worse than a man, and then revile her because she is a woman?