America is now wholly given over to a damned mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Moonlight is sculpture.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.

Life is a surprise waiting, every moment we are discovering that surprise.

The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.

My way is the way of silent revolution

Let your words match your actions. Become success conscious not failure conscious in order to make your dreams a reality

I'm a working mother... You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.

Basketball is a pretty simple game. What wins is consistency and competitiveness.

I feel like I've reached a point where music has become just as much a priority to me as my acting, and I'm glad to feel that way.

If you have someone on the set for the hair, why would you not have someone for the words?

You know, some people fall right through the hole in their lives. Its invisible, but they come to it after time, never knowing where.

One of the things that was crucial for me I got from Rory Gallagher, which was the idea of, like, being a guitar player for life and living it.