...and I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by nature suited for.

I had been allowed to believe in man's innate goodness for the twenty-two years of my life, and I had hoped to carry the belief with me to my grave.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

I wondered if all a person could hope for was illusion and luck, for I was forced to conclude that the world was fundamentally and appallingly dangerous. It is a lesson I will never forget.

You must go on.I can’t go on.I’ll go on.

My strength is my humility. When you are humble, people like you.

No to laugh, not to lament, not to detest, but to understand.

Love makes all hard hearts gentle.

Not everyone can march, but everyone can talk. And everyone can reach out, and everyone can vote.

For me, singing was always about the lyrics. I'm hopeless at singing songs that don't have a core.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

Declines are temporary, gains are permanent.

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without.