I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

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God’s creation is the greatest of all arts.

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.