It was a fine cancer experience, as cancer experiences go.

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit ... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

Why isn't there a book about someone losing their faith and it being a beautiful experience?

sometimes it's in your limitations that you find your greatest strengths.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible. ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

Losing my faith was the most spiritual thing that ever happened to me.

Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

I'm not a standup. I don't really have jokes. I don't have 10 minutes. It took a while for me to realize this.

I learned that being a mother takes a lot of energy.

The depth of love is immeasurable, when you scale it, you will only see and experience it to the degree of your scales.

Blessed are they that have faith for they shall take steps like a blind man!

Do experimental work but keep in mind that other investigators in the same field will consider your discoveries as less than one fourth as important as they seem to you.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

If you can't test it, don't build it. If you don't test it, rip it out.

I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that.

Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.

We must be prepared to keep pace with our leaders, stride for their every lengthened stride.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.