If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Killing the dog does not cure the bite.

Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.

I have so much to be thankful and grateful for, and I just think about my fans, who did put me to where I am. I can promise you this: my appointment at Moschino did not come from anyone but them.

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

I'm still a news junkie. I mean, I always was, I am now.