Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

It's always a kind of liberation to leave the classroom during a lesson, even just for a few minutes. As if you have managed to steal a little time for yourself, to take a break from reality

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

The greatest battles are fought in the mind.

Without God, life is everything.

We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.

I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.

Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?