If I don’t learn something new every day, it’s a day lost

Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

People will hire you and then tell you not to do what you were doing when they heard you.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

Now that the baby is coming, I will do a lot more balancing. I’m going to be a real mommy.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I’ll always remember when I first heard Lester [Young]. I’d never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A sound I’d never heard before or since. To be honest with you, I didn’t much like it at first.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

I’ve come into loving and understanding the feminine side of me. How powerful a woman and her femininity is… how strong, how graceful, how gorgeous, how beautiful. I love getting to know the many sides of myself. I embrace them all.

If you have to eat a frog, don’t look at it for too long.

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

The press must grow day in and day out – it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon.

You’ve got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you’re gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn’t work that way.

I see my role as a baby doctor helping people deliver their babies. I felt the same way in the music industry.

Its kind of fun to do the impossible.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.