We are too quick to put labels on things. It is my profession. I get up and paint. Everyone wants to put a label on it, but I am a free spirit, so I fight against that.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

I walk through doors. If I'm not wanted in a place, there's something wrong with the place, not with me.

I always wanted to know what it felt like to fall on stage... now I know. It's not how you fall, but how you get up

I paint a slice of life, whatever it is that day.

You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right?

I’m not perfect. And I don’t have to be. I can figure it out as I go, and as long as I do the best I can, it’s okay if I still screw up.

You don’t always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else’s problems. Sometimes it’s okay to let somebody else worry about you.

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.

There is nothing god cannot do.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.