Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.

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 on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

You ever see a poptart do the moonwalk? Magic

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.

A man you can bait with a Tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons.

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Science is an essentially anarchic enterprise.

The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.