As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

You can’t change the music of your soul.

I jump into color bliss, today and every day!

I think so, ' said Professor McGonagall dryly, 'we teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

Loving like prayer is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.

The aspect of kind of living in your imagination and creating a more romantic vision of the world than the reality that you're given - that's definitely something I can sort of relate to.

I am truly independently owned and operated.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.