When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

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.

I don't know what it is with you, but I somehow become more a woman when ever your around.

The brain says “it is impossible” and the legs respond “let’s sit down”. The brain says “it is possible” and the legs respond “let’s go to work”. Don’t blame the legs, blame the head.

If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

If we could tell a film, then why make a film?

I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

When I think of a good restaurant, it's where the food has been consistent; there's always a consistency.