To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

We are the masters of our reality.

What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish...

Where you come from, what you look like, and what your past holds do not define you as an individual--you are what you make yourself to be.

Helping others without any expectation and without gain is just as much a gift to yourself as it is to the person you give to.

If I wanted to be free of this unrequited longing, I would have to make peace with the past and finally let go. There was no way around it. But did I want to be free of it - and him?

First love yourself.. the real inner-self.. then only you’ll be able to love the world.. the lives.. the souls.

Skathis might have been an artist, but he'd been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.

My inner caveman demands she knows I'm a good provider. I'll get her the best booth, order any food she wants, kill potential predators, and buy her the best cave on the block".

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment; trust in money and you may have it taken from you, but trust in God, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.