[On amassing art for her collection:] My motto was 'Buy a picture a day' and I lived up to it..

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones..

My own passion, all my life, has been non-collecting..

Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts?.

Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby..

I enjoy wine collecting and great food..

Collecting is my passion..

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it..

Those who make their living by collecting taxes cause the people to starve; when the people starve, the tax collectors, having no one to tax, starve ….

One of the things I have been preaching around the world is collecting taxes in an equitable manner, especially from the elites..

Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it. Being moved is what collecting is all about..

Collect the power. Because our fear has power. And our fear is paralyzing, and our fear sets us off course. So it's about gathering and collecting th….

By 17, I was submitting to publications and collecting my first rejection slips..

When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness..