Most women who have done something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.

I'm not going to talk about Picasso. I have done my duty to those memories. I have had a great career as an artist myself, you know. I'm not here just because I've spent time with Picasso.

I paint the way some people write their autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages of my journal, and as such they are valid.

You don’t influence people by commanding them. When you are doing that, you are a manipulator and not a leader.

most of the timesit’s the hardest to saywhat I love moreyouor your memory.

I would say inhuman, but your kind perfected the clockwork of murder long ago.

The opportunity that God sends does not wake up him who is asleep.

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

The function of a leader within any institution: to provide that regulation through his or her non-anxious, self-defined presence.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.