Only know you've been high when you're feeling low.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

You only know you love her when you let her go.

You see all I need is a whisper in a world that only shouts.

If you can't be what you want, you learn to be the thing's you're not

Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

Elvis ate America before America ate him.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

It's outrageous. It's ridiculous. And 'twas ever thus. We all watched James Bond as he got more and more geriatric, and his girlfriends got younger and younger. It's so annoying.

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

My attitude is, if someone sees a little somethin' somethin', don't look if you don't like it.

If I, being a mother of two, can win a medal, so can you all. Take me as an example and don't give up.

I keep on repeating, I'll say it for the last time-I'm not on some ego trip.

Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.