"Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning."

"Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated."

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you."

"Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep."

"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."

"I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial."

"Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge."

"I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No."