I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need.

Michelle had great admiration for criminals and crime, though only from a distance.

Honor your joy today, whilst it replenishes and strengthens you - in the company of your Soul.

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.

The whole damned country was depending on me.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film, but so many of those compromises are made and often they're made because of vanity, pride and ego.

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.