Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

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.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.

I'd like for y'all to meet the love of my life, her name's the game.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

I still look good, though.

I'm not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

I've wanted to direct for a long time, but it had to be a story I wanted to tell. The writer's job is to find the story that he should tell.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.