I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you'd most like not to lose.

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river views.

Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa.

As the government is, such will be the man.

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.