You can't take good health for granted.

Just know this, if that day does come where I do win this mirrorball, know that I didn't just win it for me, but I won it for all of us with MS.

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.

You cant take good health for granted.

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.

I'm going to get you a broken alarm clock so you'll get up in the morning.

There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.

Where I felt comfortable was being the one that everyone liked to party with. And it was kind of the way I could fit in.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

Part of the beauty of me is that I am very rich.

There is a tidal wave of ignorance, Mma Ramotswe. It is a great tidal wave and it will drown all of us if we are not careful.

Success is dependent on effort.

If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.