We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

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.

He of all people knew how negative thinking could sabotage things.

With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do.

I just watched the news. Seeing crazy people doing crazy stuff to other people and pretending that they're the good guys really helped.

I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

Nothing has happened to me out of the closet that was anywhere near as dangerous as being closeted.

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong.

To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

Man-made religions find fault with one another, whereas God-made religion is eternally a oneness-song - God-manifestation through human aspiration on earth.