This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

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.

The most awesome powers are those not wielded.

Everything you want in life is a relationship away.

It is just as important to give all of what you are, than all of what you have. Nevertheless, it is always reciprocated.

All music has political dimensions because it suggests a way of being.

Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.

They have hyped up HIV into this super-rapist but in reality the damn thing can hardly get an erection.

The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

I always want to make sure that I am wearing what I love. What makes you feel good. And you're not wearing for anyone else but yourself.