it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

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.

Forget being like someone else.You are not a copy.You are a one of a kind MASTERPIECE.Realize this and become who you are.Your like will never come this way again.Only you can be you!

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

People don't trade money for things when they value their money more highly than they value the things.

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.

To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.

Contentment is one of the most distinguishing traits of the godly person, because a godly person has his heart focused on God rather than on possessions or position or power.

I've never done so much bloody crying in my life. I was always moaning about how hard it was when we were shooting, how awful I felt.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

Congress does two things well: nothing and overreacting.