An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?

Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it.

My mother taught me to always be strong and always work hard. She's been working hard her whole life for me and my brother. I'm a lot like her in that I work hard for what I want. She taught me that.

I want to be crazy forever, even when I'm 80

The polemics of right-wing radio are putting nothing less than hate onto the airwaves, into the marketplace, electing it to office, teaching it in schools, and exalting it as freedom.

I would say the number one thing with cancer is not to let it scare you because when you are afraid, it destroys your immune system.

The best lesson we can teach our children is to have fun. It's infectious, it's contagious.