I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

You're the Picasso of pain.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

Once us feel loved by God, us do the best us can to please him with what us like.

The biggest surprise, which is also the best, is that I didn't know I would love motherhood as much as I do.

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

You have to put yourself in a situation, a lifestyle, that makes you do the work. Even if it's a monastery.

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not.

Be open to all teachers And all teachings, And listen with your heart.

Girl, when he gives you kisses twain, use one, and let the other stay; And hoard it, for moons die, red fades, and you may need a kiss—some day.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.