I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

art is risk made visible

Love is a clash of lightnings

The best thing in life is change. Without change there is no life.

Most of my teachers when I grew up were like older white women. So, I couldn't really channel them.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character.

I like the feeling of keeping people off-balance and having the audience not knowing where I'm coming from or keeping that mysterious.

I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much.

Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.