Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

We have a world to conquer...one person at a time...starting with ourselves.

I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

One for the master And one for my dame And one for the little boy Who lives in the lane.

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.

All I was was a mechanism.

I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part.

All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.

So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.

I didn't know if I should put my faith in God or Satan. Was there really a difference at the end of the day, when we were all going to be dead souls anyway?

Life is one indivisible whole.

A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.