The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging – weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn’t want to do. I’m very grateful to him, actually.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

We see the world not as it is, but as we are.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

What is past is prologue.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose).