If you want to have plastic surgery or cosmetic surgery, live it up; go ahead and have it. But if you don't want to have it, don't have it.

I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be treated as if I am brainless. I like to be respected and to give respect.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you.

The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.

To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.

Men can not stand the explosive mixture of beauty and intelligence.

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.

I'm very old-fashioned. Occasionally I do wear underwear.

As long as we love happiness will be our constant companion.

...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.

There ain't much future for a man who works the sea, there ain't no island left for islanders like me.

That danger which is despised arrives the soonest.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Nothing lies on our hands with such uneasiness as time. Wretched and thoughtless creatures! In the only place where covetousness were a virtue we turn prodigals.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

If you watch lizards and lions copulating, then you will see that in 200 million years the male has not had a single new idea.

I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.