Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Once you can fake sincerity, you can fake anything.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Competence is a great creator of confidence.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

[On New York City:] From a dating point of view, it's like a really large rummage sale - lots of strange items, but darned little that you'd want to take home.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.

Enigmatic - the quality of keeping silent and making people wonder if one is stupid rather than opening one's mouth and removing all doubt.

Like cats and ice cream, showers were among life's simple, uncomplicated pleasures.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.

It's getting tougher and tougher to defeat ISIS, because they're in more and more places, more and more states, more and more nations.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.

The people in your life who don't need an invitation still like to get one.