Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

I wanted to educate myself about the world and I wanted to know what was happening to people in other countries. I feel now I have only just begun.

I love travel. I love to go spend time in new places. And even though I got horribly sick in Thailand, and it was the sickest I may have ever been in my life, I still loved the trip.

Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.

News makes things black and white. Documentary filmmaking should do the opposite.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it?