I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.

I've never believed that the only way to make a dent is to be a table thumper.

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.

I believe I can sing anything.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

I grew up as this very carefree, happy kid then things turned darker for me. Maybe it was because I saw that the world wasn't as happy a place as I had hoped it would be for me.

If the fiscal cliff occurs, I don't think the Federal Reserve has the tools to offset that event.

I have a big bag of M&M's in the pantry, and I have a scoop after lunch. That's my treat.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

I can't be left unsupervised.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.

You are my heart, my life, my entire existence.

The problem is how do molecules react. Because if you want to transform a molecule into something useful or something you're interested in, it helps a lot to understand the structure. That means you can explore much more complicated systems, much more complicated reactions.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how you tend to fall in love.

One good thing about donation once you do it you get addicted to it because it brings great joy and happiness to you.

Hip hop has always been chronologically misunderstood. Too many times people are hearing the story from the second floor. Nobodys heard the story from the basement. If hip hop was a cake all I can tell you is the eggs the flour the sugar the vanilla the ingredient years.

I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God's presence.

My role model is Sly Stallone.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.