When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

The greatest sorrow in the life of a peasant is that his donkey is lost. And the greatest happiness is that he finds it back.

Stop what you are doing. Go outside and breathe. The world will not end if you take ten minutes for yourself.

From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.

If you never try anything new, you'll miss many of the world's great disappointments.

That's what alcoholics do. It's in their job description: fall apart and then keep falling apart.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

Repentance is a gift of God's grace.

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

Anybody can put sexual content to music, but I feel like I took it to a next level where it's a mood or feel.