Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Never underestimate the stimulation of eccentricity.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's w

Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

I think nowadays economic liberties are an explosive issue.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

The blanket was there, but it was the boy's embrace that covered and warmed him.

Diversity means understanding.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities.