No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

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.

Oh my dear! No matter where you are, I will be with you either in person or in my heart.

History teaches usthat men and nationsonly behave wiselyonce they have exhaustedall other alternatives."--

Poverty isn't being broke; poverty is never having enough.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

It looks to me, looking out the hatch, that we are venting something. We are venting something out into the - into space.

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.

Rights are subordinate to responsibilities.

Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works!

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the traveling and in the goal, the way of joy.