I'm not a role model to my kids. They're a role model to me.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

The habits that took years to build, do not take a day to change.

The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house.

There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

Memories were like tomb paintings, thought the Major, the colors still vivid no matter how many layers of mud and sand time deposited. Scrape at them and they come up all red and blazing.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

Be — don't try to become

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

You can make up your own story when you look at a photo.

We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.

First be the best and then be first

Love..its a missing puzzle piece waiting to be found and when you do find it you can finally figure out the picture life has to show you.

Proud, then, clear-eyed and laughing, go to greet Death as a friend!