Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.

Lately, I’m spending more and more time working with non-rock musicians and leaving the mainstream – almost dissolving into another world, musically.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

What sometimes is missing for young girls is that so early in our lives we’re shushed. And not just directly shushed. Sometimes we’re treated a little too preciously. They treat us like a doll. They don’t treat us like real beings, equal partners. I was loved early by my father, but I was never so precious that he didn’t think I could be there at the table.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

I find my inspiration in myself.

I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don’t know then that the writer writes everything the actor is saying. But as I got older, I got into college and became more aware that writing is another option, and I started getting into it, too.

I don’t remember anyone’s name. How do you think the ‘dahling’ thing got started?

You will have failures in your life, but it is what you do during those valleys that will determine the heights of your peaks.

We are free to yield to truth.

Learn when’s a good time to shut up.

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing.

I dig chicks that have their own careers that have nothing to do with music. Chicks in the music business try to impress you with it.I like models.

I’m struggling just to get through the days. I think a lot of people are.