My goal as a creative person is to express truth and beauty in whatever I do

I think if you have a passion for what you do then there are no limitations on how long or how much you can accomplish.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

I've taken stuff from people, too. You know though, if you steal from one person, you're just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that's research.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.

To work is to feel alive.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.

I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.

The bottom line of any country is: what did we contribute to the world? We contributed Louis Armstrong.

The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell?

Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic.

I didn't know there were this many math guys," Hale said as they stepped onto the crowded concourse. Kat cleared her throat. "And women," he added. "Math women.

You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

The way God operates is on the basis of love.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

I'm not macho. I'm very open about things. I don't try to hide my feelings.

Postpartum depression is very, very common but a lot of people just don't recognize that they have it. A lot of physicians also don't ask (patients) about it, so it's a problem from both sides.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

To be in a video is a ridiculous thing. It's almost impossible to do it without any humour