Every day offers you 10,000 reasons to cry, but if you can find just one reason to laugh then you will be all right.

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?

I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.