The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

The only thing I like about rich people is their money.

I married beneath me. All women do.

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

[After her election to the British Parliament and being welcomed to 'the most exclusive men's club in Europe':] It won't be exclusive long. When I came in, I left the door wide open!

In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.

The penalty for success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.

People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.

Let me get this straight. You didn’t feel it would be acceptable to enter my home without permission, but taking my clothes was just fine and dandy?” -Marin

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

I think my characters - well, at least a few of them - are hoping or searching for some kind of contact with god.

A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.

When I die, I want to see Malcom X, Lumumba, my father, and I want to be able to look them in the eye

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

I've never been a goalscorer, only own goals. Good own goals.

Acting is still fun. It's still not even a career for me. I think the second it becomes a career is when I should stop.

I've always embraced my curves since I was a teenie-bopper.