Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

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.

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.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty

It is more beautiful to be kind than right.

Sow yourself first and foremost in something today

Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.

You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.

Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you.