I wish I knew all the answers, how to be perfect, attractive and witty. But I'm just a human being with all the regular faults and it seems no matter how hard I try, I can't change that.

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Rocky, if I’ve learned anything from my train wreck of a marriage, it’s that no one can take care of me better than I can.

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Mythology is studied in the school system because most of us come from it.

We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

Sometimes artists can have the same sound, but they can give you a show that makes you see it in a completely different way.

When he breathed, he truly was Australia’s greatest white elder and friend without peer of the original Australians.

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'

Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.