To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.

I like girls with a good sense of humour. Girls who are a lot of fun to be around.

The only way I'm going to be able to really, truly live a moment is if it actually means something to me.

I don't think that [normalization] necessarily is going to damage the emerging economies.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.