some people are so bitter to them you must be kindest

what drives you crazy what keeps you up at night

you must understand the difference between want and need you may want that boy but you certainly don't need him

you must enter a relationship with yourself before anyone else

do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you

if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise

it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations

to be soft is to be powerful

accept yourself as you were designed

other women's bodies are not our battlegrounds

i have what i have and i am happy i've lost what i've lost and i am still happy

if the hurt comes so will the happiness

how you love yourself is how you teach others to love you

you are your own soul mate

if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

you must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first

In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field.

In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.

I like shopping, and I like to drive.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

India lends itself well to fictionalization, but ultimately, it all depends on the writer's imagination.

The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped.

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May Saturn Capricorn Jupiter Mercury in Taurus Venus also Cancer Mars in zero.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

Love has its own color, Share it with someone before it fades away.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

There's none so deaf as those who will not hear

The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.

For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That's where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

The most important part of life is work, it's the flow, it's getting stuff done, feeling like you're doing something.

As you look around the country there are still a significant number of states where their whole school debate is over school funding and we've been focused on the quality debate for most of the '90s.