Combine common sense and the Golden Rule and you will have very little bad luck.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

In war, love is a luxury. It comes at a high price... This brand of marriage, I guess, takes steady nerves.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.

Language was invented to ask questions.

If we had fifty Eichmann's, we would have won the war.

Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins.

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.

I would do those 2 years over and over again for the rest of my life

I'm American. I'm eclectic. I'm going to follow my musical passions. And if people don't like it, and it hurts my legacy, I'm not going to worry about that.