The only true language in the world is a kiss.

With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.

Any cigar smoker is a friend, because I know how he feels.

I don't know where my road is going, but I know that I walk better when I hold your hand.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

Take time as it comes, the wind as it blows, woman as she is.

Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.

The only truth is love beyond reason.

In my flowery dreams there's always you. I do not regret it one bit.

Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle.

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it.

It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Your life on the Outside reflects your life on the Inside

Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, 'Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I'm going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.'

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

I feel very vulnerable at Halloween. I feel that people who might come to the door might not have candy intentions. I'm a little lady and I can be overcome.