Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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.

True Devdas are Authors

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

It was great to watch her spin out of control because it makes the average person feel better.

My looks are changing obviously, so I fuss like any woman if I look tired or whatever, I put on weight and blah, blah. But some part of me is very relaxed with it all.

Your readers should be so compelled to read your copy that they cannot stop reading until they read all of it as if sliding down a slippery slide.

The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

Understanding is a form of blindness. Good art, I think, can never be understood.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.