But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

Perhaps she was just looking for love in the wrong places. In all the safe places. What if love was not safe at all?

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

Holy Faith is fear for God.

Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.

Your toaster’s a puff.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.

My spiritual connection is about embracing everything around me. We're all the same. There are no boundaries . . .

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?