My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that.

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.

In moments of great change we suffer, somehow hoping deep down that our emotions and our dramas can change the future or prevent it from happening. Future happens regardless.

Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and death: becoming a father made me realise my own mortality.

I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.

Why I love acting is that it's totally subjective and I like that. I like that.

It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

I'm just going to stay single forever. I could never live with anybody ever again.

The importance of command leadership. Clear objective and strategy and loyalty to those reporting to you.

Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.