Carly Simon

I think when you get married, it’s not a totally free ride – it’s not without its unglamorous periods and its fights and its angry noons and silent dawns or vice-versa.

I have simply found a way of loving through whatever absences or dejections have fallen like tree branches in my path.

[Ben Taylor] He is an interesting combination of the two of us. His voice box is more like mine but the way his tongue sits in his mouth, and the way he pronounces words, is just like James Taylor.

Fear came in so much in my life that it did everything but completely stop me.

Seeing things that are bothering you written down takes away their power. It gives you a perspective. Helps you contain them.

The other day I came across a recording I made of a night at my apartment when I was living with Kris Kristofferson. Bob Dylan had been around earlier and we were all passing around the guitar. Whenever it came to my turn I would run into the kitchen and say I’d left the coffee on the stove or something. Shyness. Scared to perform.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

This is the only reason Greenfield Village exists-to give us a sense of unity with our people through the generations, and to convey the inspiration of American genius to our young men. As a nation we have not depended so much on rare or occasional genius as on the general resourcefulness of our people. That is our true genius, and I am hoping that Greenfield Village will serve that.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer “Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

Trouble is part of your life — if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.