Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

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.

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.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.

One of my favorites is "Time and Again" by Jack Finney. It takes place in Manhattan and goes back and forth between 1882 and the 1950s. It's really a cult book.

You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

The most dramatic moves I have made as an actor have been from stage to screen and from sitcom to drama.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

It's true that the pain makes people change

That which offers no resistance can enter where there is no space.

I think the United States and its British attack dog are not taken seriously anywhere in the world and can play no role in helping a political solution.

I have rules for life, but not for love. If I think too hard about a relationship, I'll talk myself out of it

I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.