Try to open up your mind a little, and move away from rigid opinions of what people should do and be - unless you have been there.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.

Open your mind to the world and the many different ways that can be found in it, before making hasty judgments of others. After all, the very same thing that you judge from where you are— may very well be something totally different in meaning on the other side of the world. The problem with making hasty judgments is that it will emphasize your ignorance at the end of the day.