People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

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.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

The harder you work the luckier you get.

I've had seven balls of light come off a UFO...explain to me telepathically we are all one and there's no such thing as death.

Your troubles will always bve my troubles,so long as were married.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

Independence is of more value than any gifts; and to receive gifts is to lose it.

I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.