A lot of things affect women differently than men, and women get left out.

Ted needs someone to be there 100% of the time. He thinks that's love. It's not love - it's babysitting.

It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.

You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make.

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

The more you treat yourself positively, the less you'll want or need to be negative.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.

And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.

You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

I have never seen a person grow or change in a self - constructive meaningful way when motivated by guilt, shame, or self hate.

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

When you're growing up, you play dress-up - it's a game, it's a pastime. And then as you get older, getting ready and looking nice becomes this constant stress. I want to make it fun again.

With the way I like to work, I always have to draw [inspiration] from somewhere, and the best place to take from is your own life.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.