What you hope for, you also fear.

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.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

I've spent years trying to "get in touch with my inner child," but now my new therapist tells me it's mostly been inappropriate touching.

I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.

A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

I am my brain's publisher.

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.