He can't give you a future.""I know. Because I make my own future.

I walked forward simply because there was no going back.

I could stand alone because I knew I was not alone.

The flower drifted, light and open, gliding a path through still water like the faint stirrings of a dream.

The choice is not in what you do. The choice is in the why.

In music, she'd found a perfect language, a way of expressing the inexpressible.

An artist's domain was private, a haven for practicing and experimenting, the one place where failure was still allowed.

To be ready does not mean it will be easy. It doesn't mean it will be smooth. It means that even when it's difficult, you have what it takes to survive.

In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.

I’m not familiar with this word you were repeating before…‘cojones’, was it?”I blushed as Dominick patted me on the back. “Way to introduce him to the vernacular, Palta.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

Even though someone has died, a piece of their spirit can still be alive. That's an exciting world for me to take music into, or to attempt to do that.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

I really like individualism based on truth.

Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.