Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

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.

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it

It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

Explanations are ghosts of guilt, shadows of sympathy, and I have no use for them.

If I didn't laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.

A simplified Christmas isn't about circumstances as much as it is about focus.

Art is self expression. If you are expressing someone else's personality, that is not art.

You'd be hard pressed to find elite achievers who don't have coaches helping them in key areas of their life.

I don't know where my career is going to lead me. I would like my career to be as diverse as possible. I've done theater and I've done music, and I would love to keep that in my life.

You don't control whether your movies get made. You can't. All you can control is whether your draft is great. So, you write your great draft, as best as you can, and then move on to the next thing.

I figured out some basic stuff: that form and colour defines your perception of the nature of an object, whether or not it is intended to.