If you can give people happiness, you're in their hearts. Now you can just start having conversations with people that you would not have had under other circumstances.

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.

You can't have an all-girl band! They'll get pregnant, and they'll never stay together.

Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.

We had to be our own mothers of invention, in many senses of the word.

Responding to a suicide attempt by insisting that it must stop, and devoting the full resources of therapy to preventing it, is a communication with compassion and care at its very core.

We must make decisions as if they affect those we've not even met because we realize they do. We must live respective of world family.

Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?

I love my curves. You know, I'm healthy and I think thats what Sports Illustrated represents: healthy, confident women who love their bodies.

Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

It never happens that, when we go home and open the refrigerator, we see all infinitely many prime numbers there.