I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

When you conquer fear, you unleash a greater power from within you.

The melody is generally what the piece is all about.

It's not five minutes to midnight. It's five minutes after midnight.

White man makes guns? No problem. Black rapper says "gun"? Congressional hearing.

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.

Drama and comedy, to me ,are all about being surprising, coherent, and true, all at once.