You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

We do not have control over what happens to us. But we have the courage to conquer.

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

You learn your lessons from the mistakes you make, not the things you achieve.

Celebrity is a pretty stunning thing. At first I was like 'They love me! Oh, I love them, too.' And suddenly, I was tap-dancing on my pedestal and it was whack! Facedown in the dirt.

My mom and my shows is not a good mix. She came one time and I'm not letting her come again!