It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.

Even coal shimmers in the light

If you are busy pleasing everyone, you are not being true to yourself

There is no treasure like the human heart.

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield.

It is the heart that has been pierced that feels the most.

What is courage without risk... It wouldn’t really be courage, would it?

What good is a smooth tongue without sharp teeth?

Hate engenders loneliness and despair

Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released

Capture the essence of your aspirations by understand the true meaning of your intuitive thoughts.

When virtue has slept she will get up more refreshed.

Save your rejections so that later when you are famous you can show them to people and laugh.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

One trick I swear by: I pour a little neroli or lavender oil onto a hot towel and use it to wipe off my makeup. It opens up my pores, and then my face cream sinks in better.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

We have the means and the capacity to deal with our problems, if only we can find the political will.

To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.