To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.

You become what you think. You are what you eat.

When you get past fifty, you have to decide whether to keep your face or your figure. I kept my face.

My heroines are always virgins. They never go to bed without a ring on their fingers; not until page 118 at least.

I'll keep going till my face falls off.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

Love is next to Godliness with certain safeguards.

Every woman dreams of love. When she is young she prays she will find it. When she is middle aged she hopes for it and when she is old she remembers it.

Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.

The only people who have quick answers don't have the responsibility of making the decisions.

The cholerick man never wants woe.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

People love their favorite records. And I aspire to make a record someone might be able to love in that way.

I've never felt like I had anything important to say.

To a reporter after Ray was pounded by Edmonton's Georges Laraque: What are you, the fight doctor now or something? You've never been in a fight in your life, so what are you talking about?

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Brazil is one of the biggest Latin American countries, the biggest, no doubt, and, more importantly, it is a country with immense development potential.