France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows he breathes but does not live.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

There were people who incorporated melody before me, but I would deem myself the first person to successfully rap and sing.

I am comfortable knowing that I put my heart and soul into the presidency.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Where victims see adversity, extreme achievers see opportunity.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.