[Castro is] a source of inspiration to the world.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no', then I find another way to get my 'yes.'

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

You better check your lipstick before you come and talk to me.

Nothing's ever come easy to me and nothing ever will and that's okay. I'm used to that. I go with the challenges. I roll with the punches.

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.

Words are a puzzle put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.

I grow fond of David, who lays a single stone before Goliath and a single book, the Psalms, in the mouth of the world.

Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.

I was just trying to fit in to the stereotype American dream, exactly what my parents and everyone expected of me, i met someone who's -- who's awesome, you know, we got along good.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.

You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from.

Thanks to my son, I've learned to laugh at myself. Laughter has been my saving grace.

Not all novelists are power-hungry madman. Some are power-hungry madwomen.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.