So when I'm playing, I'm sort of painting a feeling in the air.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

Happiness is not about the trophy, or the finish line. It's the journey. If you enjoy your journey, you can enjoy your life

There's a key for every door, and if you can't find it, you can make one. That's always an option.

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going.

In order to do great things, you must be unafraid to recreate yourself. You can't do that holding on to a glory from yesterday.

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket

That which makes you different is actually the thing that makes you special.

God's beauty is better by far than anything that comes out of a jar..

Fail big. Fail better.Try again. Without looking for a shelter.

To visualize that which doesn't exist, yet to believe with confidence that it can be realized, is truly something miraculous.

Ethel and Frances found a means for consolation together: travel.

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

Being single also sucks sometimes because you're single.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so.

The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.

Our troubles keep us going.

Ikea products should come free with happy meals.