I always loved working as an actress, but I didn't understand why I couldn't just opt out of being famous. And then I realized you can, and I think I did. And eventually, I came to understand that you can do that and also keep working.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest to fool.

Richard Feynman

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

John Barrymore

To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.

Joss Stone

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement.

Ron Lewis

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket - safe, dark, motionless, airless - it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

C.S. Lewis

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Vivienne Westwood

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

Albert Camus

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

Edgar Allan Poe

To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.

William James

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Dee Hock

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

Anthony Burgess