To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information.

The habit of virtue cannot be formed in a closet. Habits are formed by acts of reason in a persevering struggle through temptation.

I am your forest, your earth, your eternity. I am your life. I am your death. I am all things forever and always. Love me. Love me. Forever love me.

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.

You love someone because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.