Just as hope rings through laughter, it can also shine through tears.

I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.