Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.

But never have I been a blue calm sea I have always been a storm.

I'm going to be singing Dreams and Rhiannon when I'm 75 - and that's just fine with me. I just hope my chiffon doesn't get tangled in my rocking chair.

My life is a testament to believing that if you want something you can make it happen.

If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

My other family is Fleetwood Mac. I don't need the money, but there's an emotional need for me to go on the road again. There's a love there; we're a band of brothers.

I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.

Timeless is the creature who is wise. And timeless is the prisoner in disguise.

I believe that there is a certain amount of mysticism that all women should have, that you should never tell all your secrets, that you should never tell everybody all about you.

All I ever wanted Was to know that you were dreaming.

Common sense got drunk and giddy when Olivia was on the premises. Maybe he should just raise a glass, too, and dub reason a lost cause.

Regression in grief must be seen and supported as a means toward adaptation and health.

There is a huge value in learning with instant feedback.

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work.

All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River

It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.

Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...I drank what?