A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

Never complain. Never explain.

I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

The Wise are Superb Observers of Nature and Rise Superior to the Blows of Fortune

The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

We can only love what we know.

I want you and it will be so, While I have life.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

The signature of mediocrity is not an unwillingness to change. The signature of mediocrity is inconsistency.

I've consciously tried to be provocative and disturbing.