I want to be true to who I am.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.

Like other spiritual fruit, joy must be cultivated.

When you don’t understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

i love watching what you become when life thinks it has you cornered.

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images.

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

A vain man is a nauseous creature: he is so full of himself that he has no room for anything else, be it never so good or deserving.