If you're tearing around in a panic about something, then it puts everyone else in a panic as well.

Feed the body food and drink, it will survive today. Feed the soul art and music, it will live forever.

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how you are inside.

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

The anateur works until they get something right. The professional works until they can't go wrong.

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Perfection is insignificant. Is boring.

I think Chris Rock at the Oscars was a great example. I thought that was intellectually hilarious. The Gap starts a war with Banana Republic... That to me was funny.

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

I'm very severe with myself and sometimes I miss French cheese, but in your world it's not exactly the same thing.

I see myself fighting for about six more fights and I'll be done and happy with my career.

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

That's right, I am a book kisser.

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.