I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

There were no stars, only the darkness and an arctic chill that had intensified since the first thin, blood-red stripes of sunrise shimmered on the ocean’s horizon.

Bash it out now, tart it up later.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Blindness is an unfortunate handicap but true vision does not require the eyes.

Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40.

Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

Social networking is playing a huge role in creating awareness and mobilizing support for all kinds of common interests. What better way to use this remarkable tool than to change the world?