The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job.

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.

Great art is an escape from the agony of why.

It's what happens. You love, then you lose, then you die. Even if you survive, you die.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

Do you know, Gilbert, there are times when I strongly suspect that I love you!

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.