I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

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.

Happiness is the ultimate purpose of life and supreme happiness comes from adding value in others life.

Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.

Those is seek to profit from the torment of others will eventually pay the piper

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

One has to arrive at a specific temperature, at which the objects become malleable.

O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung.

"Weenie" was definitely a word we used at Yale back then. But I'm not sure you were one, Larry [Kramer]. Also, you were going by a different name.

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

The only people who get paid what they're worth are people who don't follow the instruction book, who create art, who are innovative, who work without a map.