My thoughts and love go out to the Mandela family. Rest in peace Madiba. You will be missed, but your impact on this world will live forever.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

When he told me he no longer loved me, I fell to my knees.

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse.

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Love is every type of relationship that you think of... I'm sure it means relationship, every type of relationship that you can think of.

Playing chess is more athletic than artistic. Champions are more concerned with victory than beauty: it's war with occasionally graceful kicks.

The devil fools with the best laid plans.

Die every day. Be reborn again every day.

In my day-to-day life, I'm kind of a tomboy. I like being comfortable.

Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.