Death is the beginning of something.

When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Performers and their public should never meet. Once the curtain comes down, the performer should fly away like a magician's dove.

Gracious words nourish the soul.

Hanifs (Muslims) are stumbling, Christians all astray Jews wildered, Magians far on error’s way. We mortals are composed of two great schools Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.

It is not enough to defend our values at home, in our newspapers and in our institutions. We also have to defend them in the refugee camps of the Middle East, and the ruined ghost towns of Syria.

I'm not a diva. I know what I like and I know what I want.

The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

When you are being true to what you know in your heart, your whole heart becomes clean.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Any parent wants the best for their children. I am not going to make a choice for my child on the basis of what is the politically correct thing to do.