If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

Poetry is the struggle against the simplification, codification, and mummification of language, it serves as a constant redirect - moving us to the experience to which the words point.

My heart do be so big, " she whispered. "It be so big and I do reckon I be about the happiest kid for it.

The good will is all — and all the talents are ways to fulfill it.

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.

Intelligent people know others. Enlightened people know themselves.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.

Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.

I consider anybody who has been able to make a living in this business [movie business] without having to do something else for a living for any period of time let alone 43 years would be a miracle.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.