I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

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.

We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging health and environmental problems.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.

If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

All you have to do is buy cheap and sell dear, act with thrift and shrewdness, and be persistent.

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another.

I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

From the very start of my career, it was clear to me that achievement was built on discipline.

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.