In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.

I know how to be the witness to her grief. I don't know how to be this kind of villain.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

The only way to live free, the only way to live your life as an offering of love, is to feel everything fully and live open.

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Working with (new collaborators) and letting people in to try new melodies and new lyrical ideas was very hard.

Strength is the outcome of need.

All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.