Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love the abusers?

I hope you defy the odds of most dreams and actually accomplish yours

When life gets you down do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? . . . Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming.

There is no such thing as bad people.we're all just people who sometimes do bad things.

I'm not capable of being casual with you, Lily.

And sometimes when I feel that much emotion, something inside of me just snaps.

You don’t put pressure on me to be something I’m incapable of being. You accept me exactly how I am.

And when you love someone, seeing them sad also makes you sad.

This isn't my excuse, this is my reality.

Don’ttempt the scorpion if you don’t want toget stung.

A leader takes people where they would never go on their own.

After all, it's not every day a woman is given a kingdom of dreams.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.

A list of authors who have made themselves most beloved and therefore, most comfortable financially, shows that it is our national joy to mistake for the first-rate, the fecund rate.

I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.

It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

If I hear ‘Karma Chameleon’ one more time, I swear I’m going to find Boy George and make him eat Jesse’s record. What does red, gold, and green have to do with anything anyway? (Gloria)