Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate.

Action without study is fatal.

If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine. I'll call it human.

Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere).

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them.

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

To win Olympic gold it takes a lot of HARDWORK, a lot of PASSION, a lot of SACRIFICES.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

There are many ways to be a mother. I have a lot of young actors I mentor, and my nieces and my nephews need a lot of love.

One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.

I make non-fiction partly because I'm not that good of a writer. My talent, if I have any, is in balancing, capturing and directing reality, rather than creating scenarios.

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.