What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Critique by creating.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

As when, O lady mine, With chiselled touchThe stone unhewn and coldBecomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

AS YOU GIVE OUT SO SHALL YOU RECEIVE.

If it’s going to be two against one, make sure you aren’t the one.

She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news.

I loved Wilson Pickett, so I just went on from there. I became sort of a semi-groupie because, I don't know, I got bitten by the music bug.

In the Land of Truth, my friend, the man with one fact is King.

I always say, to have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!

It's a kind of zen question: if you write a book and no one reads it, is it really a book?

I like my coffee like I like my women - Black and Strong.

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

I have been dubbed 'the girl who puts the glamour into hammer'

Any kind of expectation creates a problem. We should accept, but not expect. Whatever comes, accept it. Whatever goes, accept it. The immediate benefit is that your mind is always peaceful.