If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

You can only see progress when you start doing something, so don't expect anything without your efforts.

One can't do anything without a man. Men know so much, and are able to get information in so many ways that are simply impossible to women.

Maybe attraction was aligned in heaven before our birth because there was no other way to explain my feelings. There were millions of boys on the earth. Why did it feel so strong?

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

I don't need to know how they make Coca-Cola. I think it tastes just fine not knowing what the ingredients are. I think there are some things that should be kept secret.

Dear Mary: We all knew you had it in you.

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry.

I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.