You can spend your life judging people or, you can spend it making friends. Take your pick.

Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!

Don't bite off more than you can chew because nobody looks attractive spitting it back out.

The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.

The only thing standing between you and your dreams is ... reluctance.

Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.

I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction

Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.

A sin is nothing more than regret. Not for doing it once, but doing it again when you know you’re going to regret it.

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.

You are too blessed to be holding on to people and things that hold you back in life.

He wanted the songs, the stories, to save everybody.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

I had never held a baby in my life. I was one of those women - people would say, "Do you want to hold my baby?" and I was like "No ... "

Being inundated with constant "bad" news from the media doesn't help.

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

Naming can limit as well as empower.