The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Give up trying to make me give up

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.