I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

All language is a popularity contest.

You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Don’t aim at success—the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it.

Your life is like a book you decide what to write on it or erase from it

Why study the Bible? You must know truth in order to spot error

A great voice is a unique instrument, not to sound like another instrument, but to be played like one.

There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.

Without integrity, no company can have positive word of mouth

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.