“Very few of us are what we seem.”

What good is money if it can’t buy happiness?

One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Trains are wonderful…. To travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns and churches and rivers, in fact, to see life.

Time does not dispose of a question – it only presents it anew in a different guise.

It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Too much mercy often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

I married an archeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself – and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.

What they need is a little immorality in their lives. Then they wouldn’t be so busy looking for it in other people’s.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory—let the theory go.

The tragedy of life is that people do not change.

I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness – to save oneself trouble.

How you dress on the outside, it represents your soul.

People flash back to pictures of me when I was 12 and say ‘Kylie’s so different,’ but how can I look the same from 12 -18?

In South Africa, they think we’re pygmies!

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Most of us are wiser than we may appear to be. On one level, wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow one’s own advice.

The Yankees have strict rules. You can have a mustache but no other facial hair.

My general thing is, if you feel cute in your outfit, then your outfit is cute.

Everyone’s showing their thong out the back of their jeans. But you shouldn’t wear any. You get a better line if you wear no knickers.