Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.

Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.

I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

I am a multi-dimensional woman who pushes boundaries and dares to be herself.

We did not pass the ball... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

Your aim's as bad as your cooking sweetheart... and that's saying something!

As long as I can remember, I wanted to be a writer.