"Never underestimate the power of the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"It is a profound truth that wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."

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

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney."

"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."

"The beauty of the unknown is that gratitude turns what we have into enough."