I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

The only way to rise above is to rise above. The only way to respond to wrong is with right. The only way to deal with injustice is to be just.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Don't always know what I am talking about, feels like I'm living in the middle of doubt.

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.

You brought me grenades. You are officially the best girlfriend ever.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

Helping people grow and achieve their dreams is the fastest route to success.

Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!