We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?

Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things. Saki Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.