I'm still more comfortable with standards than with my own songs.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it.

It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

You have to be a psychiatrist too, especially in fashion. A psychologist and a psychiatrist together.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.

He who went to the kings to seek favors went away from Allah.