My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

It seems that the people of Oran are like that friend of Flaubert who, on the point of death, casting a last glance at the irreplaceable earth, exclaimed: "Close the window, it's too beautiful.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

As a monogamous creature, I feel sometimes that it fills up a function that affairs have in married people's life.

Questions are creative acts of intelligence.

Personnel determines the potential of the team. Vision determines the direction of the team. Work ethic determines the preparation of the team. Leadership determines the success of the team.

We've survived by believing our life is going to get better.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

For how can you compete Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbour's eyes?