People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

Birds fly over the rainbow. Why then, oh, why can't I?

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.

Stop stalling. Get out of your own way and go for it.

Literature is like a subtle concoction of laboriously collected peripherals called words, intellect, thoughts, imagination, creativity and aestheticism brewed together to form a resplendent work of art.

Thanking you once more, I want to wish you the best of luck for your future life and to conclude by saying to you: Dream your dreams and may they come true!

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough.

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation.

Multi-tasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time.

Every breath is a resurrection.

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

You can't want to be a writer. You have to be one.

The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.