If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

I allow the deities of compassion to fill me with light for the highest good.

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.

Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.

oh, what a democracy MY PRIME MINISTER IS CORRUPT

I went from living in my dad's basement to moving to New York. So I never had that middle ground of easing into adulthood.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

Intelligence in the cat is underrated.

I wasn't that interested in the dollars-and-cents part of business. My interest in starting Mary Kay Inc. was to offer women opportunities that didn't exist anywhere else.

What is Africa, anyway? Even I don't know what Africa is, entirely. But I know that it's not some of these simplified sound bites you hear in America.