I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?

You may not be able to find peace until you create it inside your forgiving mind.

You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.

I always fantasized about having a girl stand on my bar like in that movie Coyote Ugly, but I never thought it would happen.

The first mark of intelligence, to be sure, is not to start things; the second mark of intelligence is to pursue to the end what you have started.

I remember thinking that I'd never show my arms on TV, but over time you loosen up.

Don't go to business school.

This myth that America has this atomic bomb that makes us right, it makes us good, it makes us set the agenda for the world. Everywhere, we can go global, we determine.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.

Me howling blasts drive devious, tempest-tossed, / Sails ripped, seams opening wide, and compass lost.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness.