The chains had fallen from her leg, but not from her mind.

Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Perhaps, she had dreamed, she would teach some future King, shaping his child mind for a new and better world.

Change from despair to joy he made her extremely beautiful.

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

Man rarely knows his power.

Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

It's like these songs are your babies and you don't want anybody to think your babies are ugly! You never really know until you throw it out there if it's gonna take.

My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.

I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.

I learned to walk when I was ten months old and I've been walking this way ever since.

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.

The biblical writers assumed many things about reality that modern, Western people do not assume because we've been conditioned by our cultures to assume otherwise.

Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.