Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Truth is like heat or light; its vibrations are endless, and are endlessly felt.

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

As soon as you feel too old to do a thing, do it.

One must desire something to be alive.

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

One must desire something to be alive; perhaps absolute satisfaction is only another name for Death.

I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.

you have to find the words to make it sound important

Act, not for results, just for action.Give, not for appreciation, just to help.Be kind, not for something in return, just to love.

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.

I just want to be able to make a movie that takes some chances. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.

I was interested in maintaining the dignity and the hearts of the songs, letting them breathe and become what they are.

By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur.

I said that love heals from inside.