The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger.

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.

I used to think of my body as an instrument, of pleasure, or a means of transportation, or an implement for the accomplishment of my will.

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening.

Money is a life skill – and as parents, grandparents, interested adults – it's up to us to make sure our children are prepared for the financial world they are going to face.

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

I was always an actress, even as a little kid, and fantasy, horror, sci-fi stories are really all about playing make believe. I just never grew out of that.