My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.

I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.

He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

M. de Charlus persisted in not replying. I thought I could see a smile flicker about his lips: the smile of the man who looks down from a great height on the characters and manners of lesser men.

Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.

But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

The Iranians may simply try to run out the clock.

My first introduction to fashion probably came through television: I was obsessed with Elsa Klensch, who used to cover fashion for CNN.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.