I said that I’m a fairy… and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

I would compete in unicorn back riding! Why? Because we are from the same fairytale.

I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

Investing in your personal development requires time, energy, and money, but the investment provides a great return.

Why would you waste a second of your life, when that's one less second you get to live?

Be humble to those who praise you.Be pleasant to those who honor you.Be kind to those who cherish you.Be good to those who love you.Be generous to those who adore you.

Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.

Most of us have been subjected to terrible political poetry at least once or twice in our lifetimes, and so we tend to shy away from it.

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.

The neuroses parody the virtues.

Franklin Roosevelt was a great leader. He saw how to use the levers of power to affect change.

Enjoy saying "no!" but don't make it the wellspring of your vitality. Be fueled by blood-red yeses.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."