I can imagine in years to come that my papers and memorabilia, my journals and letters, will find themselves always in the company of people who care about many of the things I do.

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.

And besides, I couldn't stay at the party. It was too dangerous. I nearly died.""From what?""Boredom.

Look your best - who said love is blind?

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

You can never begin to live until you dare to die.

I used to do a stunt in almost every movie. When I became an executive, all the insurance guys freaked out.

One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking. I always try to think before I talk.

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

The art market does represent a sort of hyper-capitalism: it produces added value without any actual work being done.