I love the hour in makeup. It gives you time to think and have a cup of coffee. It's my favorite part of the day.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

No expectations. Ask nothing, expect nothing and accept everything, and life is very well.

A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

I don't believe in nepotism. I don't much like the idea of parents who interfere.

Relish everything that's inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

I always liked to take the plunge, you know, I'd jump in at the deep end and hope that I'd find land somehow, or hope I'd float or survive. That's more or less the way I've gone through my life.

You're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling?

A book of verses underneath the boughA flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thouBeside me singing in the wildernessAnd wilderness is paradise now.

If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.

We have only this moment sparkling like a star in our hand ... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.

Ideas do not always come in a flash but by diligent trial-and-error experiments that take time and thought.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

The gospel is a gospel of giving and forgiving.

We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.