I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

I want to be the thought that takes your mind off the road and your hand off the steering wheel.

Inspiration awakens our creativity, enables us to do the impossible, and improves our mental efficiency. It fires up the soul.

Be the kind of person who is a joy to be around. Caring for and loving others brings out the best in you and keeps your heart open to the unspoken and deeply buried needs of others.

You wouldn't walk with your underpants stuck in your bottom, you'd adjust them. So don't treat life like ill-fitting wondering underpants, adjust it to be comfortable again

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

In government, one actress is enough.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

Religion gets in the way of morality.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

Old dark sleepy pool... Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!