Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

A butterfly is a caterpillar which refused to give up its dreams to fly.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

Voters definitely believe Washington is corrupt - but most think its bipartisan.

If you try to give people knowledge, and you haven't trained them in character, based on faith, they will become intellectual reprobates.

There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.

Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.

I dig my heels in every now and then, and think 'I'm not going to do what's expected or what people think is the right thing.' So I have a little bit of that in my personality.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.