A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Don’t be offended if you encounter some good-natured ribbing

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

You have to do everything possible to win no matter what.

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

Your face is my heart

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

Ugly girls generally don't become successful in music. And it sucks because it's a standard that just exists.

If an abduction is reported, it is dealt with in the same way as a kidnap.

Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.