to be soft is to be powerful

what drives you crazy what keeps you up at night

you must understand the difference between want and need you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him

you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else

do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you

if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

accept yourself as you were designed

other women's bodies are not our battlegrounds

i have what i have and i am happy i've lost what i've lost and i am still happy

if the hurt comes so will the happiness

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

you are your own soul mate

some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

If someone wants a picture, I'm so honored and so flattered, and I hope I have a reputation as someone who goes out of his way to do those kinds of things.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.

Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.

In 1984 nobody knew what cable was going to be. It was there, but you didn't know where it was going.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.

The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

Greenland is a wonderful country.

To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

The beauty of science fiction is that it takes the audience's guard down; they're much more willing to open themselves up and allow themselves to be questioned and have their values questioned when they don't think we're talking about their world or them and what they're used to.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

I follow fashion trends.

It's so important to engage your kids to create rituals and moments that they will always remember.

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.

Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted to do what all me friends were doing. I gave up dancing for a while, and then I realised I wasn't as good at football as I thought I was.

A true woman always loves a real soldier.

I'm not interested in playing the victim. I like stories about survivors.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

I knew I didn't want to pursue an academic career at all, which, of course, my father would have loved me to have done. I didn't want to go to university. The only other thing I could do was paint, and so I went to art school because they couldn't conceive of how one would be an actor.