You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

I take great pride in the fact that I have lived in a Spanish-speaking country.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

I think to be a good veterinarian, you have to like people.

Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!