...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

If you have an orderly mind, you'll be a winner no matter where you end up. If your mind is a jumble of junk, you'll be a loser. It's as simple as that.

You know, Joey, the medication has helped settle you down, but you have been a good kid all along. You are naturally good. I hope you know that about yourself. You have a good heart.

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.

Because each book has its own special perfume.

When Patti Fox broke up with me, I typed her name over a thousand times on my manual Olivetti until the entire page was beaten into a stiff sheet of black ink.

Naysayers are frightened by their own power.

To us — richer and cleverer than everyone else!

We all think we have our personal favorites. But when I say, "People shouldn't steal - is it true?" Everyone in a room of, let's say, a thousand people all raise their hands and say, "That's true."

Everything is something, but something is nothing.

You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.

I do think I tend to be typecast, but it doesnt necessarily bother me.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

Beginning in 1978, Nike paid coaches to put their shoes on the team.

Trouble brings trouble upon trouble.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.