You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive.

Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character.

Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don’t, well darlin’ that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray.

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something.

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail.

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it.

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time.

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be.

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad.

Study nature as the countenance of God.

As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass, or does it come in like honey?

You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.

I usually just wear black so my shoes and my socks are my rays of sunshine.

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do it even though it takes a lot.

School reports were always pretty bad - I never ever did my homework. I always turned up for lessons as I liked my teachers but my report said I didn't try very hard.

The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.