Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social challenge.

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.

What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

I consider the 3 most cruelly produced foods to be from lobsters, dropped alive into boiling water, veal from calves separated from their mothers and kept in crates, and pate de foie gras.

Support your right to arm bears.

...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

Man has an infinite capacity to rationalize - especially when it comes to what he wants to eat.

Dreams are not those which comes while we are sleeping, but dreams are those when u don't sleep before fulfilling them.

In true Love, you are always blessed….Either being with the person or just by not.

You have to believe in gods to see them.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.

I never think about a movie when I'm writing a book, because I think only two things could happen and both of them are bad. You write a lousy novel and a lousy film.

I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

A kitchen without a knife is not a kitchen.