Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know.

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing.

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

Never use God to hurt yourself.

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

Our rich and varied cultural heritage has a profound power to help build our nation

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.