Do you wish to make of your enemy a friend? Then become a friend to your enemy.

Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

It’s been said that only the educated are free, but I contend. Only those who are educated with TRUTH can be inherently free. Otherwise, you are simply indoctrinated with error.

Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.

NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS If we are to be who we are; if we are to accomplish great things; then we must learn the heart's most essential rule: NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

It is our homes and families that need reforming in this increasingly materialistic and secular world.

I think people can believe in anything.