I can't think of anything better to do with a life than to wear it out in efforts to be useful to the world.

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

Just think of something that would be "wonderful" if it were only "possible". Then set out to make it possible.

People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

When I see everyone rushing in one direction, I know it's time to move the other way.

Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.

My batting average has been good, so people ask how much luck is involved. I tell them when I work 14 hours a day, 7 days a week, I get lucky.

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Raking over the past and sifting its dust is an occupation for the idle or the elderly retired.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Russian is a very deceptive language, because it looks easy at first: it's like setting out for a gentle stroll and realizing that you've committed yourself to scaling Himalayan peaks.

Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Bravery isn't when you go looking for trouble

A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still?

We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes me worry Im not always the life and soul of the party that I feel like in my head.

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.