If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.

The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do.

You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.

I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me.

Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.