Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Jesus consistently put people before rules.

I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.

We have killed our souls with comfort instead of seeking fulfillment and achievement.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

A fool who recognises his own ignorance is thereby in fact a wise man, but a fool who considers himself wise - that is what one really calls a fool.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

Do everything at 100 percent of its potential and never accept second best.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

public opinion, the sum of private opinions, does matter, can matter often for good.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.