Odinary people don't have a feeling of being loved by the people who manage to get into positions of leadership. They get in there, they make a lot of money, and then they play games with us.

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.

It's just like in a Brazilian serial! Destiny has brought us together.

May your turn your pain into prayer.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

The most essential step in marketing your services is selecting an occupation you can throw yourself into wholeheartedly.

I am truly my mother's son.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining.

If you are interested in improving, think of a draw offer as an offer to remain ignorant of what you would have learned in the remainder of the game.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

The subject is said to have the property of making dull men eloquent.

I got into Taekwondo when I was nine, and I started training Muay Thai and Brazilian Jujitsu later in life.