I'd rather clean my toilet than go to a show-business party.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

I feel like I'm on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I've climbed a very giant mountain, and I'm just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.

I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. I was never a big meat-eater, but I've got more energy now.

When I first saw you, I saw love And the first time you touched me, I felt love And after all this time, You're still the one I love.

I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

I don't want my body to be a distraction from my talent or my brain.

Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

The true object of human life is play.

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

When I perform outside, the major problem that could arise is strong wind.I spend months preparing for the types of wind that occur in different locations.

[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.

I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.