Always define WHAT you want to do with your life and WHAT you have to offer to the world, in terms of your favorite talents/gifts/skills-not in terms of a job-title.

Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.

The person who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but, the one who knows the most about how to get hired.

Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do.

There is a vast world of work out there in this country, where at least 111 million people are employed in this country alone - many of whom are bored out of their minds. All day long.

You want to take action every day, not sit around waiting for something to happen.

I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.

Hunches are not to be sneezed at.

Decision and choices define life.

'In Utero' was the first time I'd made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear 'Pennyroyal Tea.'

I'm afraid of Americans.

I'm very proud of my sisters and everything they've accomplished and done. I'm very proud of where I came from.

All fresh meat is eaten in a state of decay. The process may not have proceeded so far that the dull human nose can discover it, but a carrion bird or a carrion fly can smell it from afar.

Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.

What I've learned is that the most precious commodity you can have in a relationship is honesty, good or bad.

In looking back we remember only the triumphant consummations of each season. Failures and frustrations are forgotten; garden-memories are as perfect as garden-hopes.

We took up our positions, in obedience to instructions.

It is a simple procedure to calculate the number of seeds in an apple. But who among us can ever say how many apples are in a seed?