I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

The business is so upside down now. It's not just about the bling-bling.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

Faith is believing that the outcome will be what it should be, no matter what it is.

A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true.

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

In my house you have to talk to cats because, being ten of them, there are a lot of important things you have to say to them-like 'Get off' and 'Shut up' and things like that.

I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow, nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime, and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here, I would make something happen.

Your love is my diamond that I want to wear near my heart. Your hug is my heaven where I want to belong always.

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

I think it's because it shows that people--or hobbits, as the case may be--can find strength they didn't know they had.

Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

None of us know our real names.

When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.

Bach was a top harmonist geezer, which is why the jazz cats love him.

Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.