Anything that begins 'I don't know how to tell you this' is never good news.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

My body is on the earth, but my head is in the stars.

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.

Vice, virtue - it's best not to be too moral. You'll cheat yourself out of too much life.

He thinks he can see all her grief in her face, all her love and empty days.

The anti-blackness has generated new forms of youth involvement in anti-whiteness, which in some cases is appalling.

Your word travels the entirety of space and reaches my cells which are my stars then goes to yours which are my light.

I've been married nearly 34 years, I'm not perfect, I've made mistakes.

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

Yes to market economy, no to market society.

O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

How do I stay healthy? I actually leave a lot of that up to my dog. He makes me get up pretty early in the morning. We go for walks together.

Please touch me. I need you to touch me.