You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

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.

Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

I'd make a bad preacher.

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.

My worst habit in the kitchen is not allowing anybody to help me. I like to cook by myself.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

Turn your habit into a conscious decision.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

I didn't really understand fashion until I started going to Paris and seeing the ateliers and how hard these people work. It's art.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.