Wherever you turn, there is always something wrong with the politicians. They have everything they need to save the world, and they don't save it.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

When you want something very dearly, you make the time.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

UNICEF has made the most rewarding thing that I have ever done in my life.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

She unzipped her oversized flannel onesie, created especially for women not interested in finding a man, and tossed it on the bed.

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.

The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.

I think it's an urgent plea for us all to sit down together.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?