In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

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.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.

Defense is superior to opulence.

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

As a Polynesian, our gods are tied to water, so this means something special.

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

A controlled carbohydrate lifestyle really prevents risk factors for heart disease.