Smashing heads does not open minds.

Why can I not fight for my country too?

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.

I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.

The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship.

Work indeed has many more benefits than money.

The universe we are living in is not suitable for waiting for anything! Stop waiting and leave your port!

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.

Now, everything I do, I do because I want to. And I believe the best is yet to come.

Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.

I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.

Always tell the truth, and people will never believe you.