Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.

Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.

Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what's right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

Hang onto that goal and you do what you have to do to make it happen.

I'm very open-minded.

I dont understand why my fans cry when they see me. Do I make you sad? No, right? So smile, I like that!

I don't know which is worse - to have somebody you DON'T like ask you to marry him or NOT have some one you DO like. Both are rather unpleasant.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.