Inspiration always arrives unannounced.
There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle. " We all are. Everyone.
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.
You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.
I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.
The heart of another is a dark forest.
It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.
I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
Across the board, it's infinitely more effective to praise actions that you want to encourage than to punish those you disapprove of.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.