Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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.

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

[Hillary] Clinton, she conceded. [Donald Trump] beat her.

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

I like to read the 'Financial Times' when I'm traveling. 'Economist.' 'Ad Busters.'

We then came to the Soviet Union. One day we were walking and carrying our banner and distributing a few leaflets in Russian to people, and we met two women on the road.

My main goal is to tell a story.

All errors spring up in the neighborhood of some truth; they grow round about it, and, for the most part, derive their strength from such contiguity.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.