I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb

Your Design mind (right brain) attends to the melody of life, whereas your Sign mind (left brain) attends to the notes that compose the melodies. And here is the key to natural writing: the melodies must come first.

Gabriele Lusser Rico

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Matthew Arnold

It's important to travel and move and have a continual set of experiences so you've got more to feed back into your work. For me, it's a natural thing.

Cate Blanchett

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Robert Cecil

You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.

Fiona Apple

I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

Christopher Judge

In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.

Jerry Saltz

If in my life I fail completely to heed others, solely out of a desire to be 'devout' and to perform my 'religious duties', then my relationship with God will also grow arid. It becomes merely 'proper', but loveless.

Pope Benedict XVI

Formal education makes you a living, self-education makes you a legend.

Habeeb Akande

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

Milan Kundera