She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse

You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.

All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one.

Load every rift with ore.

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

I'm trying to read more dead people because I keep having to read stuff for juries and so forth.

Comedy is about talking about my own experience, and I'm a woman, and that's my experience, and just because it isn't yours doesn't invalidate it.

Steve Howey is probably the funniest man in Hollywood. For real. He is just that person that can make you laugh at all times.

You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

I don't remember learning to read, but the first thing I remember reading is a science fiction novel.