Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

There was some justice in his pain

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture.

Bowie's a real man, and I'm a real woman - just like Catherine Deneuve.

Tapping is a powerful tool that can truly heal, allowing forgiveness, love, and acceptance into your life, particularly when used along with affirmations.

The pointless ferocities of intellectual life shock businessmen, who kill only to eat.