People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

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.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

Single life is so overrated.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Art is the proper task of life.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.