You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

Talking doom and gloom all day no longer fit who I was as a person.

At the heart of leadership is the leader's relationship with followers. People will entrust their hopes and dreams to another person only if they think the other is a reliable vessel.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

There is no greater valor nor no sterner fight. He who would be what he ought to be must stop being what he is.

The movie that you'll be in is a new challenge. Photography is just the shot - one day, two days - and the next day you're gone.

Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.