Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.
I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.
Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.
Political rivals attacked me. I was savagely beaten. I was kicked in the face and I lost my eye as a result.
There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.
You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.
It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.
It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
But today, I feel the genuine warmth, the affection, and although I may joke about it, I am touched.