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

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

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.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

God gave you the capacity to invent, work, create and to be brilliant.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

If you lose count of how many cookies you ate, the calorie intake ceases to exist. True story.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

I am a bit biased. I co-chair the campaign effort of George W. Bush.

You know, dramas are much more expensive to do than say a comedy, so any kind of deficit like that is picked up on when it comes time for them to pick up new shows.

The Red Kimono tells it all—the bitterness and pain as well as the joy, pride and patriotism of a people too resilient to be beaten by racism.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Akkarin: I watched the first woman I loved die. I dont think I can survive losing the second. Sonea: I love you too.