There are bad times just around the corner, There are dark clouds travelling through the sky, And it's no good whining, About a silver lining, For we know from experience they won't roll by...

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

There's always something fishy about the French.

Mona Lisa looks as if she has just been sick, or is about to be.

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise.

Work is much more fun than fun.

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.

For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear

People fear not because they are powerless, but because they ignore their inner power

Music the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half.

Purity is light. Not just an ordinary light, but a transcendental light.

People would say, 'Girls don't play hockey. Girls don't skate.' I would say, 'Watch this.'

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself.