the best of all good friends is pride.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.

The final result of too much routine is death in life.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Success is a great healer.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

the only revenge worth having is success.

... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

I don't count my blessings, because just being alive is good enough for me.

A racist notion found in neoshamanic circles is placing high value on indigenous wisdom but not on indigenous people.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Music is all about wanting to be better at it.

God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.

My goal is to be at the top of my game every night.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

[The original Sister Act] is running all over the world now, on-stage as a musical. It lives!