Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

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

Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.