People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

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.

True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

Beneath the cacophony of sound generated by our world lies the quiet whisper of universal intelligence. Allow it to be heard...

If God dropped acid, would he see people?

Representing Australia has always been a honour and a privilege, and the older and more experienced I get, the more I enjoy it.

The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

I don't expect any red carpet to the big leagues. If the opportunity comes, then it comes. But I don't think I'm owed anything.

The slightest stirring in the air can set a hurricane in motion a thousand miles off. (Acheron)