To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

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.

From the day to till the day there are two humans living together they were and they will be involves in political process.

Goodness was not a trait you acquired

A long time ago, I gave up trying to understand how other people think.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

The 'great' commitment is so much easier than the ordinary everyday one.

Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.