I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

I am an addictive personality.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

Psychiatrists always say, Oh, we're very professional. I use exercise as my medication.

If you go to most third world countries, the older woman dispenses advice to the arguing couple while other members of the family, or even the village, sit around and listen. It is no big deal.

Somebody like me wouldn't have gone on to the Trisha show because I already had a public profile.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.

I'll get into a pattern where I start sleeping only between 12 and 3.30, and go for weeks like that.

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

For what was burned at the stakes beyond the fires did endure

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

The best part is getting to the top 'cause the pain's all over.

Government should be a model of inclusion.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.

It is your differences that make you glorious.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief