But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

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.

Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries

Work for what you want, the pursuit of life.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

God doesn't want meerly action but hearts driving action.

If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

As long as you have a window, life is exciting.

Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist.

You will find hardly any improvising on camera anywhere in my films. It's very structured, but it's all worked out from elaborate improvisations over a long period, as you know.