I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I came to understand the most intriguing irony of life, that the most intimate partner of life is death. (Page 94)

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Knowing how to fight made men more bold, because no one fears doing what it seems to him he has learned to do. Therefore, the ancients wanted their citizens to be trained in every warlike action.

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working.

But we danced, under wigs and between unfinished walls, through broken promises and around empty cupboards.

Water is the soul of the Earth.