"Right now, it's just a matter of getting my strength and endurance back. So far, no setbacks."

“Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.”

“Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.”

Source : "Oh, girl: A Talk with Julie Taymor". Interview with Karsten Meinich, subtitlestocinema.wordpress.com. September 2, 2008.

“Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others.”

“Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.”

Source : "A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs" by Mona Simpson, www.nytimes.com. October 30, 2011.

“German businesspeople have invested a great deal in our country, and trade is flourishing. We want to speed up economic cooperation. Your country is a large, important provider of aid, and it has done a great deal to reduce the poverty of many Vietnamese.”

“I like the way we get to be uninhibited in our dreams, we don't' need to repress our behaviours like we do in our daily lives. If we lust after someone in a dream we get to possess him or her, if we dislike someone we get to express it or even strike out at them. Something I wouldn't think of doing, I don't have the courage, and it's not right either.”

“Some of the same self-certified smart people, who preached about mushroom clouds and weapons of mass destruction, are once again trying to stampede us into war. They seem to think only with their guns. To those who want to shoot first and ask questions later in Iraq, I join in a firm 'No!' We've been there and done that, and America is still paying for their past failure.”

“I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.”