I'm extremely proud of my daughter. She's done amazing work. She's worked on herself, which I think is important.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

If you want to go quickly, go by yourself - if you want to go farther, go in a group.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

An angel fell from Heaven without any other passion except pride, and so we may ask whether it is possible to ascend to Heaven by humility alone, without any other of the virtues.

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.

We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.