My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Destiny never gives you chances, but in life you get many chances to change your destiny.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats

Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

True transformation only comes from sustainable strategies.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.