Passion will warm you for days, infatuation will warm you for months, but love will set you on fire for a lifetime.

A genuine smile is one of the world’s rarest treasures.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

A diamond earns its sparkle from the pressure it endures.

It is in the storm, not the calm, that a rainbow is born.

A determined seed cannot be hidden from the world, not even by dirt.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Birds keep singing beautiful songs, even if they have no audience.

Today's storms help you appreciate tomorrow’s sunshine.

Train the ears to hear more, the eyes to see more, the hands to do more, the feet to accomplish more, the mind to think more, the heart to feel more, and the soul to love more.

[Speaking about writing her first novel] You have to be passionate enough about it and I was.

Life is unpredictable and as the journey goes, it keeps on moving

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book of poetry.

the 'total overpaintings' developed... through incessant reworking. The original motif peeped through the edges. Gradually it vanished completely.

I'd love to be considered a post-pop artist, but I love to have five or six different styles in every painting, just for the pleasure of the eye.

Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.

I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

Of course the modern detective story puts off its best tricks till the last, but Doyle always put his best tricks first and that's why they're still the best ones.