What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

Your word is your bond.

It don't take long to kill things. Not like it does to grow.

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

Don't make excuses and don't talk about it. Do it.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

They never were planning to be here. All my family are going to London because they wanted to go to the big one. There was never any showdown - there wouldnt be.

J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.

To go from "gnarly" to "literally," that shows I'm growing up, right?

New fashions (of all sorts) come from unexpected places, not from the arbiters of what's correct.