It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It’s not that I’ve ‘faked my own death’ as the saying goes. Maybe it’s that I’ve ‘faked my own life, ’ and in doing so I’ve yet to realize how dead I really am.

So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it

Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul's true beauty.

Kill the king but spare the man.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

The idea that the United States is going to win the war in Iraq is just plain wrong.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.