As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

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.

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

Do we miss out on love because we are working so hard? Or are we working so hard because we missed out on love?

Do not risk your life for someone who does not care about you.

There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

The same night awaits us all.

I love singing, and I came to absolutely adore it in the later part of my career.

We are all here, on this earth for only one go around. And everyone thinks their purpose is to just find their passion. But perhaps our purpose is to find what other people need.

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.