Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

I’m the only person you’ve ever met who has read Longfellow.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It’s by the sea, there’s a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

My kids are normal. If they could eat burgers and fries and ice cream every day, they would. And so would I. But that doesn’t sustain us.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

I used to play a lot of different sports. Now when I look back, I understand that it really helped with my hand-eye coordination.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

‚Fame‘ exhausts me.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I’ve exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Libraries raised me.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

I worked out a lot before I was 20. I was hard underneath. I had just a little padding. I was quilted. Always Chanel.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.