This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

We're not interested to know the real heroes. We're really more interested in the villains, actually, and they seem to thrive, and it continues to be business as usual.

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!

Alma didn’t want Isabel to start singing the praises of their pet, a rescue beagle, or she wouldn’t shush until sundown. “I’ve found the missing lady, ” Alma said. “Say welcome home, Betsy Sweet.

No one can get an education, for of necessity education is a continuing process.

... there are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

Programmers can be lazy.

Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

Well we've moved through the funfair a bit – we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.

If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.