When you go to the theater, if you're really involved in the play, you don't think about it - you're in it.

If I think something is beautiful, there must be somebody out there who will agree with me.

You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it.

We don't need more time. We need to use the time we already have differently.

A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

The sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as effectively as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for.

I'm really working on trying to get that lifestyle aspect of the Emilio Pucci house to be as strong as possible.

It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes over the earth the crystal-like ether, in the other the liquid gold.