"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."

"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

"There are only three events in a man's life birth, life, and death he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

"I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements."

"I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice."

"I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one."

"Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles."