Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

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.

Noble self-restraint must have something to restrain.

If you're wondering where the Lord is, At this very hour, I tell you he's alive and well, With resurrection power!..

Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.

Peace is more the product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.

The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.

I was voted best-looking kid in high school but, as you can see, things changed. I used to say I was a 260-pound Woody Allen. You can make that 295-pound now.

I'm in the gym pretty much every day. I've been very strict about my diet during shooting. It all helps me bring as much authenticity to the role as I can.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.

In brief, sir, study what you most affect.