Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.

Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.

Stay away from philosophy, kids: it will ruin your mind.

Hollywood is a narcotic, not a stimulant. It wants to sell you something. Literature wants to tell you something.

Change the present then the change the future.

Mysticism is the acquired immunodeficiency of regional ontologies

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.

It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors - some of the best actors in the world - can't bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can't relate to that.

Teaching is too vital an occupation to be left to the lazy or greedy or negative

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...