As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty, or of obligation. And that, I take it, is the only sort of remembering worth the having. When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy -- that it is built upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Douglas Fairbanks

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself.

Ang Lee

Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

Basil Bunting

Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

Oscar Wilde

There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection.

Mary Shelley

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

Angelus Silesius

I have this theory about performers who last for a long time, and that is, if you break it down, music is not as big a part of it as personality and who you are. I think that we are all 3 people. I am who I think I am, I am who you think I am, and I am who I really am. The closer those 3 people are together the longer your career's gonna last. 'Cause people don't like to be fooled!

Kenny Rogers

If a man has done his best, what else is there?

General George Patton

You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking?

Jeanette Winterson

But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

Charlie Sheen

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them.

Francis I