All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.

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.

How good it would be to make my own decisions

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.

Historically, the East was more concerned with understanding the mind and the West was more involved in understanding matter.

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

Wrong dressed out in pride, pomp, and circumstance has more attraction than abstract right.