Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Camo never goes out of style as far as I'm concerned.

I think when you're in love with someone, it reveals a lot about yourself. You either rise to your highest highs or you stoop to your lowest lows.

I love flowy hippie dresses.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

Women are the harshest critics of other women.

Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.

It feels good to know you contributed positively to another's life, to their happiness, to their survival. It gives us a sense of purpose.

Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

I hate Christmas, really. I don't really give presents away or expect any.

Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures. In one of them I am your enemy.

There is no loss bigger than losing your manuscript, not even love.

God has never, in the history of mankind, allowed his name to go long offended.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.

The only thing privacy laws accomplish is making the bugs smaller.