“Change is actually what you need to avoid.”

The true things rarely get into circulation. It’s usually the false things.

I don’t want to make money. I just want to be wonderful.

I defy gravity.

They will only care when you’re gone.

Everyone has violence in themselves. I’m violent.

That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

A friend tells you what you want to hear; a best friend tells you the truth.

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn’t see or hear or touch.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad.

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.

Fear is stupid, so are regrets.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

Use the difficulties – if you can’t avoid them

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books – how not to eat what you’ve just learned how to cook.

Half the cookbooks tell you how to cook the food and the other half tell you how to avoid eating it.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

I used to think of deathlike I suppose soldiers think of it: it was a possible thing that I could well avoid by my skill.

Living in London, the water is really harsh, and my hair got so bad as soon as I moved there. But you can’t really avoid that.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.