We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people shut up the kids who start to tell stories. Kids dance in their cribs, but someone will insist they sit still. By the time the creative people are ten or twelve, they want to be like everyone else.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.

I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient.

If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It may not be the best there is. Another writer may do it much better. But I know when it's the best I can do. I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.