The only 'natural enemies' are those who take one's very nature as an offence.

Greed often finds more pleasure in taking from others than in giving to itself.

Failure is life's magnifying glass.

Grief—in all of its agony—burrowed deep into her essence, its serrated edges killing her piece by piece.

If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today then what do you need tomorrow for?

Even my failures make money and become classics a year after I make them.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

I don't believe in divorce. I believe in widowhood.

I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit.

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.