It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

An agnostic is a creature that is religiously skeptical whenever it is told that God exists … or that He doesn’t.

We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.

My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.

There was something special and unique about the love triangle that existed between Clark Kent, Superman and Lois Lane.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

Listening is harvesting what is in the speaker's mind.

Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking puddles!

Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?

By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.