In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

Where was this written? I wondered. Where in the Talmud or the Koran or the Bible did it say, "Lo, and Satan fetcheth the coffee for the Antichrist and her minions"?

I'm prouder of him than I've ever been of myself - I'm proud of him for standing up to me

Never seek permission to be yourself. Revel in your own beauty.

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I have the same skin-care routine morning and night, although I'm not one of those people who always uses the same products. My skin changes with the weather.

People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.

The reason that people in the intellectual community argue that football is dangerous is because there's now a large swath of society that has no relationship to physicality or potential violence.

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.