The female warrior knows how to fight without violence. She knows when not to raise her sword, but instead hold up her heart. Her shield is not a defense against others but a shelter for all.

Am I a friend or a prospect? Imagine how much kinder life would be if people put as much effort into befriending others instead of trying to sell them something.

You rang my heart like a church bell at midnight. Trembling, I awoke to the sweet sound of love.

Being a doctor, you are not supposed to give vent to any signs of revulsion on encountering the most noxious of odours or the most gruesome of sights.

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

I paint the fog - I think of its fresh moistness - its stillness - its mystery.

I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.