Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.

Every good thing you do changes the balance in the universe.

Guilt, the poor man's mind control.

Hatred, like straw, makes for a lumpy mattress.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Were here to win the race. If we get beat, we get beat.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

There was no normal. There never had been. "Normal" and "natural" were the biggest lies we'd ever created.

Everything is a test.

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.