In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

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.

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.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

Doubt is the thing that’ll kill you, the only thing, and it’ll kill your friends, too.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy

Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.

Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.

The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war.

Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Cowards' weapons neither cut nor pierce.