“The time to make up your mind about people is never.”

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

People think that I’m tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

Secret of my success was to have ambition and know minds of men.

What’s on your news feed is feeding your mind.

Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks Our ready minds to fellowship divine, A fellowship with essence; till we shine, Full alchemiz’d, and free of space. Behold The clear religion of heaven!

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I’ve gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn’t make you feel fatigued.

I couldn’t beat people with my strength; I don’t have a hard shot; I’m not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

Monks understand that routine frees your mind, but the biggest threat to that freedom is monotony. People complain about their poor memories, but I’ve heard it said that we don’t have a retention problem, we have an attention problem.

A healthy mind with a good emotional stamina rises above the influence of past hurt or negativity in the environment.