California is an Italy without its art.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!

To know the life principles of the kingdom is to humbly seek them

The problem with beauty is you will always be in trouble, when you don’t know what beauty is.

All those rumors about her being underweight are trash. She's [Calista Flockhart] gorgeous.

In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

Unify your attention. Do not listen with your ears, but with your mind. Do not listen with your mind but with your essence.

Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood.

[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.