“Here people was once used to be honourable: now they are all bad; they have kept one goodness: that they are greatest boozers.”

The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.

I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed

The true sweetness of wine is one flavor.

I have not told the half of what I saw.

My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

You will hear it for yourself, and it will surely fill you with wonder.

Without stones there is no arch.

I speak and speak but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

One of these nuts is a meal for a man, both meat and drink.

Another solid run through Central Park. Admittedly, six miles turns out to be a bad idea after a full day in heels!

Most of us do not like to look inside ourselves for the same reason we don’t like to open a letter that has bad news.

I hope you are reading to your children, out loud. That’s much better than watching television, much better. They won’t get very much out of television except some bad thoughts.

I think as far as the music industry is concerned, it’s kind of been the wild, wild West in a way with the Internet, which is not necessarily a bad thing to me.

People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It’s like that. If you’re going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.

I never said I was a ‘good girl.’ I’m not a bad girl. I’m just normal, and that’s what I’m going to be. There’s no bad girl with whips and chains that’s going to come out. I think people like me because I was myself.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.