Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through: "Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe." Salon April 25, 2003

Imperfections create character.

My faith protects me. My Kevlar helps.

I greatly admired Gypsy [Rose Lee] for being able to rise above her circumstances; I was terrified of her; I thought she was generous; I thought she was brilliant; I thought she was cruel.

A day on a film set is maddening.

Scars are but evidence of life.

Even alone we go on justifying ourselves.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.