“A nation that forgets its past has no future.”

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

Never, never, never give in!

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn’t taken from you in the first place.

I’d rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clinches into place.

My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there’s a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.

If you have to abandon yourself to make the relationship work, that’s not love.

In my early years, there were a number of experiences that made me decide I could not afford the luxury of just being an actress. There were a number of issues I wanted to address. And I wanted to use my career as a platform.