The career of a movie star consists of helping everyone else forget their troubles. Using charm and beauty and good cheer to make life look easy.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Sometimes life appears one way, but what matters is how you internalize life and its lessons.

I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me.

Positive results will come when you start to replace your negative thoughts and habits with positive ones.

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

I'd like to be remembered as someone who was smart in business, works hard, and can be sexy and a mom. A powerful but still sexy, nonconforming woman.

I think it's absolutely a blessing when you just know what your purpose is and your destiny. I don't think it's a curse at all.

The life of man is long, perhaps longer than necessary Or perhaps it is shorter than necessary?

Some of us get a feeling when we hear music and we feel music, and you want to figure out how to continue to feel that.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.