The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.

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.

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy.

Life is a beautiful thing. Plant it in the ground, and it blooms into opportunity, capice?

I am confident that we will find evidence that makes it clear he had weapons of mass destruction.

One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

I didn't get the Russian Jew part because they didn't think I looked Russian or Jewish enough - and, mind you, I am both Russian and Jewish - so I was cast as the racist Mexican.

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

[Gresham's Law]: Bad money drives out good money.

Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.