For me, cooking is an extension of love.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia

Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

I want fake love. But that's all I want, and that's why I can't have it.

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.

As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'You don't cry because it's over, you're happy because it happened.' That's the main thing. I'm very happy that it happened.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.

God is in charge, and alone sits as the ultimate government over His creation. All other governments are then to reflect His ultimate rule.

It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively small bites, or else you get indigestion.

Music is one of the ways we can achieve a kind of shorthand to understand each other.