We do the best we can with what we know, and when we know better, we do better.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.