Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

Life it too short to deal with crazy people.

When someone tells me "no, " it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

Once we were in love, So I know it's true, the saying: True love never endsFor as much as I loved you when we were sweethearts, I love you even more Now that we are friends

It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life but did not try.

I readily admit that I'm not, and have never been, big on forgiving. That doesn't mean I will seek revenge - It just means I don't forgive.

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.

To call you my critic is to call you my friend.

I stand, and wait among the sea foam. I swim in my own tears-I sing without my voice. I do not reach for higher ground, because I have lapped in the churning waters.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

There's a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he's a good conductor?

The story of human intimacy is one of constantly allowing ourselves to see those we love most deeply in a new, more fractured light. Look hard. Risk that.

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.

I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure