When anybody says, 'Why me?' Why is 'me' exempt?

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

There's a saying I read recently; I painted it on the fireplace and in my studio: "Be kind to everyone you meet, for everyone is fighting a great battle." We all are. Everyone.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

I'm always in love. If it's not with a man, it's something else. I love beauty. I love the sky I see outside the window. There's so much beauty in the world.

You must always have great, secret, big fat hopes for yourself in love and in life. The bigger, the better.

If you've never had a mother or a father, you grow up seeking something you're never going to find, ever. You seek it in love and in people and in beauty.

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

I've had many, many loves. I always feel that something wonderful is going to happen. And it always does.

...that is the best-to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.

I will not die without fighting for a life I am not yet done living.

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.

There are many things clogging the television waves. You've got to fight for every bit of television households you can get.

We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.

When you start somewhere, you've started.

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

Oh, the fun we two have together.