Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.

I play a lot of strategy games and team and reactionary games. So it's a different sort of skill that you're practicing.

A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin

In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.

I'm thrilled to feel that I can rely on myself totally and absolutely; that my children are being brought up so that when they meet a problem they can't cop out by foisting it off on God.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

Those who live passionately teach us how to love. Those who love passionately teach us how to live.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Rich people manage their money well. Poor people mismanage their money well.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.