What do you do with your legacy, and how do you best put it to use?

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand and laughter in the other.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

Your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel.

You get to the point where your demons, which are terrifying, get smaller and smaller and you get bigger and bigger.

The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.

Freedom is heavy. You got to put your shoulder to freedom. Put your shoulder to it and hope your back holds up.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

Love needs no protection; it is its own protection.

We, too, need to be patient, especially when it comes to reaching new goals.

The only true allegiance a politician has is to his own re-election.

You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

It's nice to win an award, I would assume. I've never won one, but I would imagine it's great. I have no idea what I'll do.

I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you, I couldn't.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.