Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Religion is a smile on a dog.

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here.

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding.

My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.

Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

What's a codependent? The answer's easy. They're some of the most loving, caring people I know.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.