The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

There is no past. Past is present when you carry it with you.

Isolated, she managed somehow to feel free—albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe.

She'd abandoned the animal she loved as she herself had been abandoned repeatedly in the past by people who had claimed to love her.

It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to.

Man is like a bride unto God. God is jealous when man veers away from Him.

Our life mandate on earth is carrying out our purpose

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.

I like to stay cozy with my paranoia, not pass her around to my friends and family.

I am not against a little inflation.

The world is too fascinating to limit yourself to one path or one sort of people.

The more one emphasizes winning, the less he or she is able to concentrate on what actually causes success.

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

Everybody wants to collaborate with me. I was going to collaborate with Whitney Houston, but she died. Very sad, man. We were very good friends.