Be yourself! Be individualistic!' he called out after me. 'But for God's sake get your hair cut. You look like an oddball.

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

Our life would be what we made of it--nothing more, nothing less.

I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

In fact, the thing Lorraine and I liked best about the Pigman was that he didn't go around saying we were cards or jazzy or cool or hip. He said we were delightful . . .

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

Know that the same spark of life that is within you, is within all of our animal friends, the desire to live is the same within all of us...

The truth of the world is that in every group you will find some good and some bad people - which is why i am keenly aware that no group is ALL bad, just as no group is ALL good.

I hate feeling hate but feeling nothing feels worse.

To be enlightened is to know oneself and not run away.

He liked to like people therefore people liked him.

The only real elegance is in the mind if you've got that the rest really comes from it.

I had dreams, but always told myself, 'Nah, that would never happen.' For a poor Latina, (acting) wasn't a reality.

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.

Sunblock! I don't like to tan my face because it's bad for wrinkles.