First of all I've been having a wonderful run of luck with cover albums songs I didn't write. I had five pop cover albums and two Christmas albums and they were all very successful.

The bottom line is when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities not only are they many times more productive they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

You can't get there by bus only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

When you discover your mission you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness we do not know its root and men are making no effort to discover it.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers alas have to be fools in public while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom they will discover your ignorance.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case a suffragette who had never married. After her death he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law a war that was wrong and immoral.

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.

You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.

But if you want to know the truth the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers but by preconceived opinion by prejudice.

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.