New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.

Everything worth doing starts with being scared.

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.

By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.

So you love war. I used to think you were a decent man. But I see now I was mistaken. You're a hero.

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.

The best way to fix the society is for us to start fixing ourselves and our families.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

Be not weary in well-doing. … Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.