We are always - always- in choice.

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

If you're alive, you're creative.

Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.

Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.

Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

I've learned that in order to be an efficacious woman with any sort of spiritual power, I first have to love my body.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

Sometimes I imagine a surveyor 100 years from now reading my plan, retracing my boundaries, and finding the monuments that I set. It's an honor to make a mark in history like that.

The Way lies at hand yet it is sought afar off; the thing lies in the easy yet it is sought in the difficult.

Prayer is an effort of will.