“I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.”

I’ve been through it all, baby, I’m mother courage.

When I’m not with the one I love, I love the one I’m with.

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves.

I don’t entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I’m me. God knows, I’m me.

If it is not to make the world better what is money for?

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

I’ve always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it.

I hate the idea of always having to interpret other people’s ideas and thoughts and words, because I’m very independent and, I guess, a free thinker.

I’m not like anyone. I’m me.

I’m not afraid. Life is just such an adventure to me.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.

It’s all about hope, kindness and a connection with one another.

The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

I don’t like my voice. I don’t like the way I look. I don’t like the way I move. I don’t like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don’t like myself.

It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you’ve generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life – like drinking and sleeping, and if you’re lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.

Nor shall our cups make any guilty men; But at our parting, we will be, as when We innocently met.

The true meaning of the precepts is that one should refrain not only from drinking alcohol but also from getting drunk on nirvana.

I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.