My work has changed my life. My work has saved my life. My life has changed my work.

I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am.

Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.

It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all

Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.

No one who has hope will ever be cut off.

Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century.

If you were alone and suddenly became blind, and even so you keep walking forward.

There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

This kind of war, you've gotta believe in what you're fighting for.

We can ignore suffering no matter where we live. There are people who live a few miles from me who never see much poverty or the injustices that live on our doorstep.