Somewhere within you is a huge supply of happiness, always there, patiently waiting for you to reach out and grab it. It’s yours for the asking. And you ask by giving it your attention.

Never worry what others say when you walk away from all the drama. Be grateful you had the strength and courage to stay out of the conflict and be at peace with your choices.

Worry is using the incredible gift of your imagination to infuse life into something you never want to see in your world.

Instead of measuring yourself by your weight, measure yourself by your acts of kindness.

Those who only look back at the past are certain to miss their future.

The one person you'll be spending the rest of your life with is you. Treat yourself with love and respect.

Those who are truly beautiful go out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

You don’t have to explain yourself to anyone. It’s your life, live it in whatever way is best for you.

A big secret for happiness - stay away from people who steal your peace of mind.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

I curated this show [Shanghai Biennale ], I was by no means trying to shock people or be controversial.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

The greatest test of faith is when you don't get what you want, but still you are able to say Thank You Lord.

The mind alone can not be exiled. [Lat., Mens sola loco non exulat.]

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women.

I call it my billion-dollar mistake. It was the invention of the null reference in 1965.

I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

The fact is ones own voice is not heard anywhere else. Its a challenge to be yourself. It takes a lot of courage.