The arrogant man probably thought his path to heaven was already assured, and that he acted in accordance to God’s will just by breathing.

It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.

... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.

Wasn't that the way of the world, though? Only the strong survived, and the weak perished.

To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-

if you fooled a person, don't think he or she is a fool...it means, they trusted you more than themselves...

We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

In leaving Hollywood and coming to New York, I feel I can be more myself. After all, if I can't be myself, what's the good of being anything at all?

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.