To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.

Apparently, we have become such a hyper-individualized culture that it is impossible to develop an argument based on how individual cases fit into the fabric of the common good.

Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people?

I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

Trying to be happy without a sense of God’s presence is like trying to have a bright day without the sun.

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

I'm never gonna stop music, it's like air to me.

[Visualisation] works most powerfully when you realize that it is already a reality on the unseen level. It's already there.

When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.