biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Photoghraphic projects can be as short as an afternoon or as long as a lifetime.

I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.

Today I will find something beautiful.Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.The dove resting near the lemon buds.Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.Smiling on me."Creating" in BREATHE IN

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

True states of realization occur when you throw away all the teachings. All of the teachings, absolutely. Everything. Then you are investigation itself finding out what you are.

If all you can promise me is today, I'll take it and hope for tomorrow.

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

We all want to be natural. I am seeing an increasing number of people who want to match the products they use every day to a more natural, healthy lifestyle.