You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it

Anyone can fly. All you need is somewhere to go that you can't get to any other way. The next thing you know, you're flying among the stars.

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

I became a feminist because I wanted to help my daughters, other women and myself aspire to something more than a place behind a good man.

Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.

I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge.

I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.

I am free to go wherever I want for the rest of my life.

Hating yourself is like hating the sun. No matter how much you complain of it agitating your eyes, its brilliance shines on.

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love

I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

It makes a big difference to recycle. It makes a big difference to use recycled products. It makes a big difference to reuse things, to not use the paper cup - and each time you do, thats a victory.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

Forgiveness frees the forgiver.

To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

Cut word lines — Cut music lines — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the books — Kill the priests — Kill! Kill! Kill!