Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

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.

Soon, if we are not prudent, millions of people will be watching each other starve to death through expensive television sets

He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? Harry Blakemoor died with his tie on. I like it, Larry.

You can tell German wine from vinegar ... by the label.

Every woman is at heart a rake.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

I think an ashtray is the most fantastically real thing.

So long as you are in this world, be not surprised at the existence of sorrows.

If you're secure in yourself, and even if you're not secure in yourself, you don't need to bully.

If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.