If we are to wield great magic, then let us learn from great teachers: the alchemists -- magicians par excellence.

We have the power to change voluntarily, and there is something wonderful and awe-inspiring about that power.

When we set a goal we are fulfilling our destiny. Even if we do not reach it, we have changed our lives and the lives of others by attempting to reach it.

Desire creates a starting point. Without it, no magic can be put into action.

A confident decision makes a lasting goal.

If the goal is what you want to achieve, then the purpose is why you want to achieve it. Without purpose, reaching your goal will have little or no meaning.

Because change creates opportunity, when we do it through purpose and awareness, we are working with the fates, and in turn they smile upon us.

Mother Earth allows us to live and to walk on her surface, not the other way around.

For a thought to manifest on the earth realm, a sacrifice must occur.

Purpose creates a belief in a higher power, directing you toward your goal on the best path possible.

Buried deep within each one of us lies a treasure. It is our mission in this lifetime to find this treasure, but its exact location is known only by the dragon that guards it.

School has nothing to do with a persons gifting or skills.

If you can continue to smile through hardship and pain, then your moment will come…just be patient.

[G]ive nothing centrality, because writing is about continually shifting weight from one thing and moment to the other.

War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating images that were made to talk.

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.