If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anyone else to feel like that.

If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Why do they call it "rush hour" when nothing moves?

Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money.

Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.

I never quit. I never quit.

It is not the same thing to be good and to be kind.

I create for each individual woman to reflect her definite sense of personal style and unique beauty

Accomplishments have no color.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."