I've succeeded as far as I'm concerned - I don't feel that I have any cliffs I could fall over anytime soon.

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.

A true education prepares you not only for living but also for life.

Happiness is the reward of virtue.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.

I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

How can you say when you're attracted to something? It's not easy to articulate my tastes.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.