Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.

Christmas works like glue, it keeps us all sticking together.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.

I can only strive for what is important

Learning is important. It is a way to make a life better for yourself and your family.

I need them and they need me to need them

I am afraid of losing what I have already valued.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

I love Chicago. I have big investments in Chicago, and I think it's a great city.

To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live.

I started when I was three years old, doing commercials and Modeling in New York, I liked it so much that I kept doing it.

I had to surrender to not worrying about the way I looked, how much I weighed...I am not a woman whose self-worth comes from her dress size.

If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.

I love working with my dad, but I need to be independent and do my own stuff.

Obviously it always takes longer to finish an album than you think it will. That's always going to be the case. Everything takes longer than you think it will. Occasionally things happen fast.