I don't focus on criticism. I prefer to praise people and the world, rather than criticize them and it.

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.

Dreams are what gives us insight into what may be if we have the get up and go to do it.

The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.

Papers, Always Welcome you with an Emty space to full it, they wont judge or Mind...

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

The road to being somebody in this society starts with education.

Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

There was no one around called 'Val' when I was young, so I wanted to be John or Bill. Now I like it.