He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others.

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I’ll sit up and sing.

I’ve been a life-time member of the Black Country community and I’m supporting the Wolverhampton Youth Zone. I think it’s a very welcome and crucial addition to the life of kids in our area.

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I love my husband, but my girlfriends are my sanity.

There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

So the indigenous population of what’s now the United States was ‘exterminated’, to use the word that the founding fathers used. Not totally, but that was what was considered the right thing to do. They replaced them and it became a kind of settler state, not an imperial state.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme.

Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

If you’re wondering why I was only nominated for three of the categories tonight, it’s because I don’t swallow.

Once you truly understand that it is okay to lose or fail, you are free, you have nothing to fear, and only then, can nothing in this world hold you back.

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

I do not feel that we should set up people as ‘models’; rather actions, thoughts, principles.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

I’ve always had a deep love of live performance, it’s when I feel most alive.