We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Future belongs to those who live with hopes and dreams, act on those dreams and hopes until those are a reality.

What you say about the world reflects more about you and your perception of the world than the world itself.

In medicine sins of commission are mortal sins of omission venial.

The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.

Voice acting is about the easiest thing to do. You roll out of bed, throw your clothes on that you had on the night before, you go into the studio, and nobody cares, just as long as you can speak.

Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

It creates a conflict of interest - what songs would I use for me, and what would I use for the band.

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery.

In my lifetime I've been to bed with men, women, and odd pieces of furniture.

I had had an extroverted personality with a lot of friends, but when I lost the weight and grew so tall, I withdrew within myself.