I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

Oh how warm it makes one to know that there is one person in the world to whom one is everything. A lover is the most precious, the most marvelous possession.

No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.

Well, I make every song I sing personal. I've never chosen a song that wasn't.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

Surely being in love doesn't cause you to lose your sense of good taste. If I ever buy a gown with sequins on it, someone just shoot me.

For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

You must not think That we are made of stuff so fat and dull That we can let our beard be shook with danger And think it pastime.

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.