With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

You're the Picasso of pain.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

Don't come to God because you have a problem

I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid.

Self-manipulation is our medication. Mythology is our drug. The only cure is honesty.

Microsoft is a company that manages imagination.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

My mustache gets so many questions he has his own agen now.