The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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.

Never compete with any man but yourself. Seek to develop yourself.

Houses are cellular walls

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives.

Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

When I'm 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I'll be, like: 'Cool, I'll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.'

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

I would not live over my hours past ... not unto Cicero's ground because I have lived them well, but for fear I should live them worse.