I get the urge for going/But I never seem to go.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

When the church really takes on the humble characteristics of Christ, that's going to lead to revival.

The tires are called wets, because they're used in the wet. And these tires are called slicks, because they're very slick.

["John F. Kennedy" movie] was just really clever storytelling.

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

When we send Love in response to hate, we become spiritual alchemists.