When you look in the mirror and despair and none of your clothes seem appropriate, relax, put the kettle on. It might suit you.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

He who disagrees with me in private, call him a fool. He who disagrees with me in public, call him an ambulance.

Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.

If you only ever read one book in your life ... I highly recommend you keep your mouth shut.

Like bees around honey. Why are bees so attracted to honey, since they make it? It can only be vanity.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

What do you get the man who has everything? Might I suggest a gravestone inscribed with the words: so what?

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.

All men are brothers. Hence war.

Like many supermodels, I won't get out of bed for less than £3000. Unlike many supermodels, I don't get out of bed very often.

Morale and attitude are fundamentals to success.

God forgive me for what I've done. God forgive me for what I will do, and forgive me for what I can't do because my religion won't let me.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

It is not enough to read many books, you have to read the right ones.

The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals.

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

There is nothing more flattering than a woman to say 'I'm a fan' or 'I think you're beautiful.' I don't know why, but it means a lot to get a compliment from a woman.

If you look at the population of the world you have roughly 15% that will always be resisting advertising. Fifteen percent of something which has not yet been reached.

I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us.