We must feel the pain before the pleasure, only then can we tell them apart.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

When you are beloved and happy, you are a great success.

Don't let the magic slip away, " he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary.

Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged with him!

Don't try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you.

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.

The things we do at Christmas are touched with a certain extravagance, as beautiful, in some of its aspects, as the extravagance of nature in June.

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman Tiptoes into my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper; "Go to sleep, everything is alright"

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own.