I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

A person isn’t born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don’t have to give up the chance to love.

The love for baseball is a love that lasts a lifetime, passed down from one generation to the next

Forever isn’t long at all, Christopher, as long as I’m with you.

For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don’t give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

If you’re unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

Staring at each other, who’s gonna make the first move? Been doing our thing for a minute, and now both our hearts are in it

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are—you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But, maybe I get carried away by some trends

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal, but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes

After we played Sporting last week, the lads in the dressing room talked about him constantly, and on the plane back from the game they urged me to sign him. That’s how highly they rated him.

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel

Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.

I can say with some confidence that no matter how many obstacles and setbacks you encounter, it is your response that truly matters

Every day people straighten up the hair, why not the heart

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane, and a derby hat. Everything is a contradiction: the pants are baggy, the coat tight, the hat small, and the shoes large.

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.

The gods have become our diseases.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious

Can’t be starting all these problems if you cannot solve them

The more I see of life, the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.