When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.

I've never been in love, never in my life.Oh, I've dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night, but my soul is like a fine piano that's locked, and the key is lost.

Bella. You were always my soul.

Life was simpler when we thought no one cares about what we think.

Of all the follies the greatest is to love the world.

If someone wanted to have a grudge against me, or didn't agree with my lifestyle, the way I breathed, the space I took up on this planet, they had an open door to 'report' to the powers that be.

Success doesn’t just find you. You have to go out and get it.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

The first thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says 'no'.

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

The nation needs to return to the colonial way of life, when a wife was judged by the amount of wood she could split.