No one can fill those of your needs that you won't let show.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain. We all have sorrow. But if we are wise we know that there's always tomorrow.

When you get to all right, take a good look around and get used to it, because that may be as far as you're gonna go.

Sellout... I'm not crazy about the word. We're all entrepreneurs. To me, I don't care if you own a furniture store or whatever - the best sign you can put up is SOLD OUT.

Value the people who value YOU.

If you start sweet, then you've got somewhere to go.

I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel.

The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.

I was wiser at 30 than I am now. My judgment was better at 12. If you look out the windshield of a Hyundai or a Bentley, you see the same road.

If nobody throws all their rules at you, you might make a song with no introduction.

My secret to happiness? Keep sadness to yourself

If you believe you can achieve your dreams, you find the strength to pursue it.

I'm preprogrammed emotionally and intellectually not to go down blind alleys. I don't waste the time. I automatically edit out whatever's impractical.

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.

Racism serves as the cutting edge of the most reactionary movements. An ideology that starts by declaring one human being inferior to another is the slope whose end is at Auschwitz.

In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Some of the most famous people in history never got a dinner!

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.