Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

Things are always better in the morning.

It's not necessary to tell all you know.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

Each day carries in the blessings of God and you have unlimited access to all it offers.

It is all about trusting your choice that you have already made.

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my number-one sport.

The Tao which you know is not the eternal Tao

We are pushed by pain until we are pulled by vision.

[My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.