This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

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.

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

I have my own spiritual guru, and I'm so happy, and I feel so satisfied that I might appreciate many other famous gurus, but, you know, I am not attracted that way because I have found the person.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

Love was like a steamroller. There was no avoiding it; it went over you and you came out flat.

Human perception is literally incarnation.

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.

I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.