I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Go lovingly into each moment and experience your infinite being as you truly are. Feel, learn, play!

And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker.

Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another.

You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

Paolo Maldini and John Terry are two of the toughest men I have met on the field.