The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

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.

Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.

It turns out there is something worse than attending a wedding where you don't know anyone: attending a wedding where you know six people, and they are all your ex-husband's best friends.

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs.

Real music to me is real; it's what you feel.

Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Our lives are shaped by those who love us as well as those who refuse to love us.

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair.