I don't even like hearing my own voice on an answering machine.

Better not to work on things that you're not in love with.

The only times I'm consistent about praying are when I'm on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by.

The art world seems so much bigger than it was when I was growing up.

Making art is different for everyone.

If I don't work for a while, I don't work for a while.

I'm so private and I don't know why!

I used to be more glamorous.

I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV.

I buy some art but I don't like to talk about it.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.

For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.

There are always parts of me that come out in the characters that I play - it's the only thing I have to work with and to draw off of.

...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best.

Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

What I really want for my children is that they be loved and that they be happy and that they lead a good life.

Being an Image Activist simply means to be in action of supporting, celebrating and creating honest images of a group you care about, or yourself.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.