I consider calmly the question of how much evil I should need to kill off my finer feelings.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis.

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

I read of the Kalamazoo girl who killed herself after reading the book. I am not at all surprised. She lived in Kalamazoo, for one thing, and then she read the book.

It wasn't science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

It is action that creates motivation.

It's not a secret that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.

Only the weak invite their demons to live with them. Isn't that right?

You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

Theater is so wonderful and brilliant but it lasts very much in the moment. It's there and then it's gone.

My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all create the ability for social media to work and all build reputation and ranking.

I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.