everything comes and goes; pleasure moves on too early and trouble leaves too slow

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.

My emotions are spiraling out of control. I never promised I would be logical at a time like this!

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.

Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.

Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old flame and passion will be yours.

Revenge, we find, the abject pleasure of an abject mind.

There is no greater power in the Universe than the power of love.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

I've had plenty of practice and I'm hitting the ball well. I've had no injury worries so I'm in good shape.