I have to be seen to be believed.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.

Have intention, sacred will travel.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

I want to see peace in the country.

But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with.

WFMU is so experimental that you can go hours without hearing something that resembles an actual song.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

So far we still don't know whether angels are ethereal beings of light without substance or if they take a solid human form with real wings which actually enable them to fly.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny.

Does the business have favourable long term prospects?