I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it.

A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.

I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Don't judge me, you could be me in another life.

I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.

Really, some cases shouldn’t even smell the court room. Screw Habaeus Corpus, lock up the criminal and have the keys thrown away.

I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

A heart that can break is better than no heart at all.

December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.

Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money.

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?