Arts in education is especially important to me. Inspired teachers in our education system is crucial in developing inspired human beings.

Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.

I know that truly nothing is for sure.

"There is love." Someone wrote that for me on a piece of paper in an airport when I probably looked like I really needed to hear it. I did. We all need the reminder sometimes.

Coming upon a space that sounds unique and incredible is just the best feeling.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

I do my best to write my way through it. It helps the laughing, reflective part come quicker.

Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

Realism can break a writer's heart.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

I like being hired to do more and more stuff. Carry more and more responsibility. It's nice I'm getting that trust.

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

I have a really sweet daughter. She wants to hug all the other kids. I didn't teach her to be sweet. It has nothing to do with me.

Every victory of Hezbollah, I celebrate.

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.

A photographer doesn't just copy reality, but communicates to others what he or she experiences.