Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

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.

It is easy to create a memory, but it is almost impossible to forget.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

I'd leave London only for Man United, the club of my dreams. For Mr Ferguson I'd also stay silent on the bench.

Just before you break through the sound barrier, the cockpit shakes the most.

I do a show. It comes on late at night on TV. And if that means I'm a late-night talk show host, then I guess I am, but in every other regard I resign my commission, I don't care for it.

I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature.

We believe people are basically good. We believe everyone has something to contribute. We encourage you to treat others the way that you want to be treated.

I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better.

The agony of love destroyed often leaves us swearing never to love again.