Every 'problem' we face is only a problem because of the way our mind (ego) perceives it. It is, in fact, not a problem at all but rather a lesson we are providing to ourselves in order to evolve.

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

The benefits of forgiveness are limitless.

The number of ways you can live in one lifetime is limitless. So why limit yourself?

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.

Selling is nothing more than asking questions and waiting for an answer.

I'm not afraid of silence. You know, I'm not afraid to sit in a room and have the conversation drop into silence. I think that's a very southern thing.

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.

So why am I depressed? That's the million-dollar question, baby, the Tootsie Roll question; not even the owl knows the answer to that one. I don't know either. All I know is the chronology.