I like bad boys, and I like to take them home to my mom.

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

The harder [role] the better. Definitely. When somebody turns around and says, "She can't do that," then that's the one I want to do.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand.

I know I'm flawed - but perfect is boring anyway! Flawed is good!

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl.

I am a very private person. No one ever knows anything about me as I don't think it is necessary. I tell people as much as I want them to know about me.

I live with romance in my brain. I'm a true-blue Cancerian like that.

When I became Miss World, I couldn't believe I had won it. I used to sleep with my crown because I was scared someone would steal it. In a minute the world changed for me.

We will never be more that we have been destined to be!

Believe me, Nóra. An old broom knows the dirty corners best

Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.

By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways.

It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.