Perhaps love and hope are one and the same.

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.

Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

The trouble with being angry is that it not only makes you feel stupid, it encourages you to say stupid things as well. Stupid things that are hard to take back and impossible to erase.

A home is a place one's heart creates and so recognizes as its own. A place it enters of its own free will. All others are merely dwelling places.

And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.

She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you.

It’s like I’d been walking a tightrope with a big safety net underneath me, but I never really thought about the net until someone took it away. And then every single step scared me to death.

Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.

Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.

People today are desperate for leaders, but they want to be influenced only by individuals they can trust, persons of good character.

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

you give me fever from miles around ill pick you up in my car and well paint the toown

The fact that they let me in a movie with Gene Hackman has left me with no faith in show buisness.

I discovered that a lot of the songs I like, they're fantasies, a vision of something, but you don't actually live there.