I paint flowers so they will not die.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

The people who truly matter, would surely love you unconditionally for being true to yourself. So why worry about those who wouldn't accept you?

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.

It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.

I think my mother was very spiritual.

There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.

Learn at every opportunity. What your learn is always yours.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath! He that but fears the thing he would not know, Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes, That what he feared is chanced.