If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say that I'd thought they were made of candy and had eaten them.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

We must seek the inner self, the power within.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

Garden work consists much more in uprooting weeds than in planting seed. This applies also to teaching.

Acting can be a great job, but you do have to make up things to do when you're not working.

One can't get over the habit of being a little girl all at once.

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.