This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

Your soul shines through even if you haven't got mascara on

When girls walk home we put on lippy and makeup. We chat. Sometimes we pretend to be hunchbacks. But that is it. Perfectly normal behavior.

Jas, you are three hundred miles away. You would have to have nunga-nungas the size of France for Jock to be able to rest his hand on them.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

I will not have him in my brain;there is no room for anyone else in the cakeshop of agony. it's crowded enough in there already.

I've never had anyone say they love me before. Libby lobes me, that is true, but there is something a bit menacing about the way she says it.

What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?

He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.

Dad has brought me a cup of tea in bed this morning! I said, 'Vati, why are you waking me up in the middle of the night? Are you on fire?

Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.

By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.

I meet them in this stadium, strangers at opposing desks until I wave my red flag.

Don’t serve time. Make time serve you.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

The progress of women's rights in our culture, unlike other types of 'progress,' has always been strangely reversible.

I have searched frantically for contentment for so many years in so many ways, and all the acquisitions and accomplishments- they run you down in the end.

Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.

The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.