I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.

Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.

Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.

Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

The U.K. should begin with an FAnd have a C after the U, And it should end in E DNow that we’ve left the E.U.

Chemistry has energy and it's meant to be felt.

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

This may be a thing you neither want nor need, " she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.

I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.