I really think that to a lot of people hair is everything. Bad hair takes over everything, it really does. I think if somebody has bad hair it doesn't matter what else is happening.

I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.

Ditzy dumb blonde? I can be ditzy. I can be.

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

We have to embrace obstacles to reach the next stage of joy

We need to have empathy. When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.

The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

I've bled for you. I've killed for you. I've held you in my arms and done my best to make love to you. I'd give my life to protect you. Now I sit beside you, askin' you to trust me.

You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.

There's no longevity, living off of negativity.

I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

Don't celebrate yet, Ms. Lane. Don't believe anything is dead until you've burned it, poked around in its ashes, and then waited a day or two to see if anything rises from them.

However happy the director is, I have to be okay with it. I'm pretty strict with myself, about throwing things out or trying to be true to whatever the situation dictates.

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.