...the difference between me and her is that she loves being smart, and I love learning, and those are two very different things.

...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.

Strive to enrich all lives, hearts and minds not just your own pockets

When you push yourself beyond limits, you discover inner reserves, which you never thought existed earlier.

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.

Yeah. Sure. My brother's dead. My mother's insame. Hey, let's have a crepe.

My vanity is not dead. I laugh when I see pictures of myself as I am now-maybe so I won't cry, but just because it is really funny how much I've changed.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.