It wouldn't make for sanity would it, living with the devil.

But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Men are simpler than you imagine my sweet child. But what goes on in the twisted, tortuous minds of women would baffle anyone.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

A dreamer, I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

Seeing him was a sucker punch to the gut. Once upon a time he’d loved her. And then when he’d stopped, it wasn’t really his fault.

...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.

Music may be his passion -- but this, right here, was his dream.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

Do not speak unless you can improve the silence.

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.

We can speak our honest minds without compromise and without censorship and to each other and to our people. We can take our message directly to our people.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

In boxing you create a strategy to beat each new opponent, it's just like chess.