You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

I can't even say I've begun yet, but I'm trying on the idea that there is a book in my future.

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

Under any system of society ... the family holds the future in its bosom.

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

I was never a prodigy.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.

The more you love someone the more he wants from you and the less you have to give since you've already given him your love.

We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly.

When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.