Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

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.

There are always answers. We just have to be smart enough.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.

There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.

Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt.

Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

The single best thing that has happened in my lifetime in music, after punk rock, is being able to share music, globally for free.

I don't have a television, and I'm just not too up on television.