I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.

People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.

I'm too young, too smart and too good-looking to die.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

We don't want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

The fan base that I've had all these years has come along. Some of them are not as plugged into the digital world, so they want to go out and buy the CD at Walmart or something.

Back, back, back, back. Gone.

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.