I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people in terms of my work, and I always felt with a good record, I could always come back.

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.

It's one of the happy things about a world gone so wrong: your personal freakishness don't stand out so much.

To know it is not as good as to love it, and to love it is not as good as to take delight in it.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

Political movements always belong to the young.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

Thank God I have the things that my mother and father taught me, the things that I've learned from pastors and spiritual teachers and the books that I read.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

We have the water, food and other industries which are also experiencing some redirection.