“I spent a good portion of my life being unable to honor my feelings. When I started the process of having real friendships it was a huge change. I still struggle with it because it is not familiar ground.”

Friendship is such a powerful healer and source of support.

I was ahead in the slalom. But in the second run, everyone fell on a dangerous spot. I was beaten by a woman that got up faster than I did. I learned that people fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster.

When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can’t see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can’t see.

I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit.

I felt how important the simplest things were, like feeling proud, finding something funny, stretching yourself, retreating into yourself.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”

It’s a very frustrated feeling you get when the only people with good photos of you work are the police department.

When I’m in the mode of feeling positive about love, I don’t really feel the need to mark it down in song. In fact, I know what that song would sound like, and I would not subject anybody to that.

I think that music and art and film, at their best, can connect with something that is eternal in human beings, that might not have so many labels on it, something that’s ultimately universal and that may just be a feeling.