Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

THE MOMENT YOU WANT SOMEONE ELSE'S LIFE IS THE MOMENT YOU SPIRITUALLY KILL YOURSELF

Do it at your best or Don't do it at all.

Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.