I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

Do we ever get slow rain?

You call it hope — that fire of fire!It is but agony of desire.

A day with a sage will save you a thousand of study.

If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying.

You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it.

Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out?" Lula

God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.

If you spend a lot of time lying to people, you think a lot about what the truth means.

Live life to the fullest tomorrow may never be.

Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.