If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

You're the Picasso of pain.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.

Because we all need to believe in movies, sometimes.

We have to remember that progress isn’t just a straight line upwards, O.K.?It’s a weird roller coaster where sometimes you’re screaming for joy, and other times you’re barfing in your own face.

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life’s tragic beauty.

"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."

I hate almost all rich people, but I think I’d be darling at it.

What is delayed is not lost.

Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.