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.

When death is the ultimate destination for all of us, why are we not enjoying our lives?

It seemed unfair that despite the fact he could not use them, or feel them, his extremities should cause him so much discomfort.

You are kind, caring and intrinsically good. I am hateful, vengeful and intrinsically evil.

I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.

My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

I love it when these Internet dudes say to me, 'Hey man, we just want to be 'content neutral.'

Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.