My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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.

Friendship warrants giving up the ego, submitting you to the other person, and remaining non-judgemental in the whole process.

As I leave the gardenI take with me a renewed view, And a quiet soul.

Hire an angel. They need the work.

Those lose least who have least to lose.

Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

The beauty of the human mind is that any decision that is made can be unmade.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

We'd get in the car and i'd look over at John and say 'Christ. Look at you. You're a bloody phenomenon!' and just laugh because it was only him.

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.