By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.

Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.

Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.

Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

Our children are watching us live and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame.

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite of the false messages running through your mind.

I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life, and perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree.

And Clare, always Clare.

If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

Letting events end is not rude. Everything ends.

We are unique, each human voice, not because we are completely self-generated, but because of who we choose to assemble the countless factors that made us.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.