All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this, " would have been fine.

You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time.

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

I have no religion, but if I were to choose one, it would be that of Shariati's.

When you are happy, when you are laughing, when you are loving, the radiance of your Soul shines through, and all are lifted by it.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.