I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up like him if my mama had not been so tough and strong. A lot of people, including Mike, don't know I came from the ghetto. They think I'm too nice and proper. But that's the way my mama raised me - to look people in the eye and respect them.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

Ben Stein

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Thomas Fuller

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Bob Woodward

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Johnny Vegas

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Ellen DeGeneres

My dad knows the business, and he tells me I've got to do what's best for me.

Jamie Redknapp

It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.

Julie Walters

I have no methods; all I do is accept people as they are.

Dr. Paul Tournier

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.

Cass Canfield

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Jean Rostand

The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.

John Macy

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

Gustave Flaubert