We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

If you feel lucky, then you are.

To become vegetarian is to step into the stream which leads to nirvana.

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.

Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

No one looks stupid when they're having fun.

He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself.

People think about, when you sell a million records, "Oh. You must be buying Ferrari's and living in mansions." It was never really like that.

I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.