August 18 Birthdays

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

Women see realities more clearly than men.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

All I wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing... and then made me mute. Why? Tell me that. If He didn't want me to praise him with music, why implant the desire? Like a lust in my body! And then deny me the talent?

When you are 12, you no longer need the parents.

Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldnt be avoided. It should be faced.

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold, I almost got married.

Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

I didnt realize how much people liked to bash SNL until I was on. Ive always just liked it, and Ive always watched it and been into it.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.