You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

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.

Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.

I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

I like to do a lot of cardio.

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

I've been very lucky. There were times when I was afraid I would never sell another book, but I never doubted I'd write another book.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph!

I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.

Better to have 3 real friends than 100,000 digital ones.

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.