If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.

You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

It's often your deepest pain that brings out the best of out of you

Asides your power, passion and poise, what glues the posters of your impacts on memorial walls is how you treat those you need and those who need you.

Love is dead, and the only thing remained is a small slice of respect.

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude."

Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.

One of the things that became clear, and which was actually rather disturbing, was the fact that there was a view which was being expressed by people whose scientific credentials you can't question