How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

I've always been passionate about fashion.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.

I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Things don't exist until they exist.

All those evils which the [liberals] interpret as evidence of the failure of capitalism, are the necessary outcome of interference with the market.

My mom always complains about my lack of a boyfriend. Well, next time she asks, I'm going to tell her I'm dating two different guys-Mr Duracell and Mr Energizer.

To savour Istanbul's back streets, to appreciate the vines and trees that endow its ruins with accidental grace, you must, first and foremost, be a stranger to them.

You need never fear feeling too good about God.