The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'

Being powerful is so much more interesting than being beautiful.

You write your life story by the choices you make.

It has nothing to do with clothing or makeup. Just put your shoulders back and chin up, and face the world with pride.

Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.

When you're 16, 30 seems ancient. When you're 30, 45 seems ancient. When you're 45, 60 seems ancient. When you're 60, nothing seems ancient.

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

Parkinson's is a slow but inevitable process. It's hard living with it on a daily basis. The difficulty facing people with it is that they never quite know 'Can I or can't I do this today?'

I don't like the word 'strong,' because a strong character is never an interesting character. A character is made interesting by their vulnerabilities and their weaknesses.

Where you grew up becomes a big part of who you are for the rest of your life. You can't run away from that. Well, sometimes the running away from it is what makes you who you are.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

I'm pretty into computers. I used to be a lot more into it when I was younger.

If you're not part of that club, as I certainly am not, you are not presidential.

No health care for poor kids? You know, I thought something like that was only done by cartoon villains. You're (Pres. Bush) slowly going from being Nixon to Mr. Burns.

A beautiful problem is no joke!

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.

We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very good at it.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.