What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

We are the masters of our reality.

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish...

Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.

Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

A happy one will do her best to make you happy but a pathetic one will convert your life to a pathetic one

When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.

At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

I did say I don't feel as worthy as so many of the recipients ... He said he'd seen some of my work, which is amazing, and was a fan of Gavin and Stacey.