Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

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.

Indeed, in that sense we’re all rather often almost like mad people, only with the slight difference that the ‘sick’ are somewhat madder than we are, so that it’s necessary to draw a line here.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

Boys don't cry-or at least that's what everybody's supposed to believe.

Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .

Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme-- why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?

I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.

How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.