I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

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.

Till when will you struggle to make your place in this world? Open your eyes, you already have. Now go ahead and make use of it!

Day of the Lord as all our days should be!

Being rich and miserable has got to be better than poor and unhappy.

If the English had deep-dish pizza they could have kept their empire.

How am I supposed to save the universe with all this noise?!

Weep now, but tomorrow be strong. Remember who we are and that whatever else is taken from us, they will never strip our honour and our pride.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully.

I've never heard of a situation where, because somebody had a particular political belief, they didn't get a part. I think it's a bit of a myth.