Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.

I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family.

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced my through years ago.

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.

Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

My cup was already brimming before I met him —after it runneth over.

Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you'd have sliced me through years ago.

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

What's most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That's the holy grail.

Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.

Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that lands like a thud on the oval office desk?

The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.