hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

Charles Baudelaire

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.

Soren Kierkegaard

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Ann Rule

We cannot always assure the future of our friends we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Henry A. Kissinger

I love acting like I'm in love. It's a very positive thing.

Amanda Seyfried

Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

Tina Turner

God has blessed me. I've been given a lot. I'm at peace with myself. It's time to give back.

Michael K. Williams

You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.

Humbert Wolfe

Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

Gordon Ramsay

My parents separated when I was four. It wasn't the smoothest of divorces, but then as my mother always says, 'You can't have a passionate marriage without a passionate divorce.'

Sophie Ellis-Bextor