Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

Time is your most valuable asset. Money you can spend, lose, and get back. Once time is spent, you can never get it back. Spend your time wisely today.

I urge the general public to be wary of the police on the grounds of health and safety.

My whole day has been a unicorn ride through a field of rainbows

We had made the error of staying small – and there is no more unforgivable crime in America.

It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.

Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music.

And I am a weapon of massive consumption And it's not my fault, it's how I'm programmed to function.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

The only club I have ever belonged to is the James Bond fan club. Member since 1979.

If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.