For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why.

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Do things that make you happy within the confines of the legal system.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Be careful of what you assume, what you assume often becomes what you consume

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

My swimming cap was really sprouting leaks these days. The thing is, you could patch over the holes, but it would never be the same. Like my love life.

God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

There was really nothing for serious men to do in cases of wild gossip, for superstitious rustics will say and believe anything.

Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?

Medicine has always been my calling.

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone.

Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.