“If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.”

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

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.

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

Some of us bleed together better than we love.

Have you ever felt trapped in circumstances, then discovered that the only trap was your own lack of vision, lack of courage, or failure to see that you had better options?

Allow the opposition to make you better.

No one sells a song better than the person that wrote it.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

For better or worse, we all felt something together for once.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.