No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

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.

Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

Sometimes you have to shove all the surface stuff to the side in order to see whats underneath.

I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but something was worth a try.

It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

Men like to think well of themselves, and poets help them do it.