When you believe in what you’re doing, that’s the first thing. And you have to be resilient, because people are going to try to knock you down.

Anything we want to do, we can do. If we can dream it, it can be done.

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.

Passion. That's it. When you believe in what you're doing, that's it.

Women initiate most domestic violence.

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

Nobody can be a success if they don't love their work.

It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.

A child in the 4th grade who's just learning algebra is not imperfect. While there may be a child in the 12th grade who's much better, the child who's learning is not imperfect.

I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the related ones were brought together into separate essays.

I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue.

The business that leaders are in today, is the business of transforming awareness... There is deep longing for more meaning, for connections.

Most writers do similar things in their minds. It's how the mind works, basically.

Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.