A difficult journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

When I think I can’t go anymore, I go anyway.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

If I go a little over the top sometimes, don't worry; That's where all the sunshine is.

Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

Once I stop spending energy trying to prevent things I have no control over, I have a tremendous amount of energy to focus on the places where I can make a difference.

When something is impossible, I do it anyway.

A difficulty journey is more revealing of character than any discussion or analysis.

Food is a creative, personal journey

Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)

Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.

A god is anything that lives outside of God.

I think anyone who has a passion for what they love to do, and who pursue it, is inspirational for me.

My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.

I am the Ayatollah of rock 'n' rolla

If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

It is passivity that dulls feeling.