I love America, it's a much more permissive place.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

A loving heart, determination, faith, courage, trust, belief, truth, and a solid soul create the wings with which we fly.

How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?

I’m in, especially if there’s a bad guy. Do I get to hurt a bad guy?

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

Always be suspicious of conclusions that reinforce uncritical hope and follow comforting traditions of Western thought.

They all lie, from the top man down to the bottom. If their lips are moving, a lie is unfolding.