You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

When good things are on the horizon you keep walking towards the sun.

Every rose is longing for joy and love

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

Drawing and composition are the same thing.

If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction.

My plays have been translated into all of the official languages of South Africa except Afrikaans.