Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

I'd love to live forever except the person that made this game board has a tendency to occasionally knock some pieces off

Give me one other part of history where everybody shows up to the same social space. Fragmentation is a more natural state of being.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

The Church, therefore, has two constant needs; instruction in the truths by which it must live, and correction of the shortcomings by which its life is marred.

You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.

The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.

I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.