The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb your nose at all know-it-alls, jeerers, critics, doubters.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.

I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another.

The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

No writing is a waste of time – no creative work where the feelings, the imagination, the intelligence must work. With every sentence you write, you have learned something. It has done you good.

... none of them had it. They had no qualms about stealing, but they needed to be told. They liked to be told, and Viktor Chemmel liked to be the teller. It was a nice microcosm.

Faces close, they breathed into each other, their bodies slick with water and sweat.

We all have those things that even in the midst of stress and disarray, they energize us and give us renewed strength and purpose. These are our passions.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

I'm proud to be one. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.

She was a singer who had to take every note above A with her eyebrows.

And that was the closest I've ever come to an epiphany.

Go, do not be afraid and serve

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.