It's so interesting to me how songs take on a shape and body of their own and grow.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

The pressures of business relationships: so I tell the guy I usually have my tea time at 10 o’clock every morning. He calls me at noon (very upset) because I didn’t meet him on the golf course.

He who tells the truth says almost nothing.

These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love.

Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.

Women must begin to "save" themselves and their daughters before they "save" their husbands and their sons; before they "save" the whole world.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.