My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.

Don't waste my time- I'm not stupid, and I'm not gullible.

It doesn't matter how we were raised. We become the person we choose to be.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

People get mad at me very easily. The magnitude of your anger toward me is the measure of how much you know you are doing wrong.

We, as human beings, should wish to be loved and embraced for our character, respected and relied on for our courage, and trusted for our conscience.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

Wisdom is using your head, separating right from wrong, and doing what is right.

the teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.

I hope I've grown. We all should grow from year to year.

[Beaches] is a pretty picture and I just liked having somebody like Bette [Mudler] who can be flying in the big comedy scenes and have her do more like a realistic part.

I always loved music and I always loved to perform, and that's my favorite part, to perform; my favorite part is not the studio, I can't stand the studio.

I stopped dropping acid for a while after my daughter was born. It's hard to keep an eye on the kid while you're hallucinating.

The best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.