Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Your moral values & ability to rationalize

The day you yearn greatly for in your life, will never come so easily as you think without great sacrifice.

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

I just want my fans to grow up and enjoy the music first, I don't want to change the world that's not what my music is about.

Canada has great natural resources, and its people have the spirit and ability to develop them.

Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

I still can't understand why anyone cares about what I do or what I say.

The sorcerer is a Simple Realist: the world is real--but then so must consciousness be real since its effects are so tangible.

I don't mind if people look at me like I'm crazy. I'm just being me.