The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

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.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.

You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?

You look like the vamp who bled the cat.

He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart, " a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

People are going to paying attention to him whether they love him or hate him. So I think Tiger is a huge focus point on a stage that is as little as golf.

I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.

Take life with a pinch of salt A shot of tequila and a wedge of lime Do nothing at all But take your time

All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.