You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with mind, body, soul; you've got to be committed; there is no life on the side-lines.

I'm not conniving - that has a pejorative context. I'm not sitting in back rooms making deals. That's not my style.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.

I never like other people to clean for me. I don't want them to invade my own privacy.

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

I really don't like talking about diets.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Even when I jog, I need a place to get to.

Men go after me, and I choose among them.

When you deprive yourself of happiness, you deprive yourself your sense of being.

It might be a little bit crazy, even. Like, for real crazy. Not just 'oh isn't that charming and endearing' crazy but 'wow that might be a deep-seated psychological issue' crazy.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give it to them.

Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face of the earth.

The rock biz is the low end of the creative world. Faces come and go so fast.

I cannot really be responsible for other people's thought processes.

I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.

There is no freedom without justice.

I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.