Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Show me a man with a tattoo and I'll show you a man with an interesting past.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

There's only one way to make a beginning, and that is to begin; and begin with hard work, and patience, prepared for all the disappoint­ment s.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does

There's no quick or magical way to lose weight. You just have to do it the natural way - diet and exercise and stick to it - and be able to do it at your own pace.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

When we did 'Dynasty', it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Many are willing that Christ should be something, but few will consent that Christ should be everything.

Slavery is the ultimate and greatest evil. For it is based on a denial of the dignity of the human soul.

Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.