Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.

Encouragement gives strength to every soul.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again

I'd love to be approached to do ordinary things more.

I don’t want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I’ll act if it’s the right thing.

Computers are not good or bad; they are powerful.