In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as a nation taste-blind.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?

She looked down at her bulging veins and she remembered the most important thing that she had forgotten – she was alive.

I don’t want to write a book which will bring me fame for just an hour. I will try to write something which may not be very popular but it may last forever.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

Mustard's no good without roast beef.

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!

When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done.