I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

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.

God had already determined your success even before you were born

God created Universe and gave credit to science.

For the right woman? I'd like to think I'd do just about anything.

The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Let those who know know, and let me keep what little privacy I can.

Life is a nonstop circle; learn to live it from the first round.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

Here's a tip, Alyconeus. Next time you choose the biggest state for your home, don't set up base in the part that's only 10 miles wide. Welcome to Canada, idiot.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.