World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

If one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?

When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.

She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.

Psychiatry causes so much death

It's a happy relationship when it's easy and when there's that trust and love and no jealousy or games or anything.

It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.

As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it