I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.

Love is the only thing in this whole universe, that can make the roses grow out of the swords.

In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from the inside. And that's where the church should be working.

Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth.

Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.