Mothers can forgive anything!

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

Life is meaningful when it is dedicated for the wellbeing of others.

I don't have any degrees. I went to Hunter College one year and New York University another year. It's just on the basis of my books that I've been hired at any of the places I've been.

Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

I fought Sugar Ray so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.