I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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.

What is it? Tens, I can see the stick up your arse from here. I'm dying remember? Dying people don't have time for silly moods

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.

This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

Chris Martin is more of a musician and hasn't really put himself out there as a television host or anything like that.

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character