Once one follows the ideals of any specific ideology, they lose some ability to see the world outside of those pre-filtered glasses.

Everything is going to be alright' doesn't mean stubbing your toe won't hurt anymore, but it reinforces that what takes place today, good or bad, is just a small piece of the larger puzzle

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live.

Every woman's path is difficult, and many mothers were as equipped to raise children as wire monkey mothers. I say that without judgment: It is, sadly, true. An unhealthy mother's love is withering.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.