Good work is good work wherever it is.

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?

I was terrified, terrified in Songwriter, because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

I have come far, but not far enough. It is still a man's world.

I know that some people work differently, but I have to work from the inside out. It doesn't matter how big the character is, there has to be a truthful core.

It's about time to see the downfall of the scorecards of who's right and who's wrong. At the end of the day, what's important is that you feel good.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

I'm intelligent enough to survive happily and be compassionate. If I were too smart, I would realize all the ills of the world.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.

History should be about every generation's will to power.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

It just sucks when you’ve given so much and you realize it still wasn't good enough for someone.

The Holocaust may belong to history, but it was the price we paid to become a nation. Auschwitz was like a cradle of death that enabled future generations of Israelis to live.