Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

To dream a garden and then to plant it is an act of independence and even defiance to the greater world.

There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

If this is freedom, do I want it?

You don’t see what I see.

Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones that do.

Every month I do a webcast for 55, 000 people, and it's a great tool, great communication vehicle.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

The more that I see the sexism and misogyny that's coming at me from every direction, the less I think my films have anything to do with sexploitation.

Most people would have found it grotesque, but when you're in love nothing is so abstract or horrible that it can't be thought of as cute.

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?