Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

God knows both your name and address. When the right man comes along God will lead him to your door. And that man will recognize your name.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

Talking about peoples lived experiences is a powerful way to mobilize them. We can create new rules.

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

You simply can't make someone love you if they don't. You must choose someone who already loves you. If you choose someone who does not love you, this is the sort of love you must want.

I think we get into very dangerous territory when we start to define who can and cannot be a feminist. It's such a slippery slope, and I have no interest in being the feminist police!

Home advantage is usually an advantage to the home team

To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

One must act in painting as in life, directly.

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.