If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Wildflowers don't care where they grow.

Freedom isn't hard to lose - but it's a hard thing to win back once it's been lost.

Out of our suffering we emerge. Our struggles are really our only hope.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry.

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Every human being has creative powers. You were born to create. Appreciate your inborn potential.

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.