Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds... and there you shall meet the real happiness!

Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

Ambition is the driving engine behind every great success.

The truth is: you don’t have a life, you are life.

Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.

You can't think for other people. Nor can you feel for them or be them. They have to do that for themselves.

In most relationships, somebody cares about the other one more and that's usually why you get out of a relationship because it's not reciprocated.

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person.

Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness to one, is far from being so to another.