The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year

The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety.

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

Established in Being, perform action.

When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.

That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'