Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family.

My words will be my legacy, etched in heartfelt honesty upon the pages of time.

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.

There have been people I've warmed to over the years but, as the situation I'm in is so fleeting and transient, I've always known it's going to be over kind of real quick.

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier.