You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].

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.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.

I look into my glass, And view my wasting skin, And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!

It's not that I'm afraid of death, but afraid of the thought of my people laid to rest; They saying there is 6 million ways of death but not even one way to fade the stress.

Happiness is self-connectedness.

There was no time for bitterness now: eat bitterness, and bitterness eats you.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

Lovers have heartaches That can't be cured by drugs Or sleep, Or games, But only by seeing their beloved.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.