The greatest gift is not being afraid to question.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -- what make you go beyond the norm.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Every individual is capable of extraordinary things, but no one can accomplish anything by themselves.

We are here on the planet only once, and might as well get a feel for the place.

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

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.

The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.

You have to leave room in life to dream.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

No one can dub you with dignity. That's yours to claim.

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.

It does make a difference what you call things.