I'm the kind of woman that likes to enjoy herselves in peace.

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.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

What can you do for love?Can you leave a person for love?Can you leave a country for love?I think I wouldn't even leave my couch for love

'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they do not know what I think, they cannot even touch the things which are really mine and with which I live.

And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.