Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

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.

When you love someone, you often surprise yourself with the kind of forbearance you can show in the face of total exasperation.

Never give up your wife, husband, children and families.Believe that people can change.Give others opportunity to change.

Everything that lives lives not alone nor for itself.

I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

Technical achievement without vision is only craft.

Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion." "No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.

...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.