I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.

It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa

I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.

There is no point in being a responsible member of society, nor is there any point in being an irresponsible member of society. Both are very defined descriptions of selfhood

"The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead" because white bread lacks vitamin E and lecithin.

I think that there was a fad where everyone said, "I want you to create a signature step for my artist." The thing is, for me, music creates the step. The artist commands the step, you know?

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

America’s true power lies not in its will to dominate but in its ability to inspire.

There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.