Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

To put in the effort needed to create the life of your dreams, you first need to develop a burning desire.

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke.

People always say you can't win if you don't play

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

I began imagining scenes in public which some drunk would come up to me and slap me in the face. Nothing like that ever happened, but I often wonder if I would have turned the other cheek

It is our job to lift others up, not to size them up.

I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have the discipline to go to the gym.

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

If I was a Jewish girl in Hitler's day, I would become his girlfriend. After ten days in bed, he would come to my way of thinking.