I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

If God has allowed me to earn so much money, it is because He knows I give it all away.

Death does not exist.

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

All I've done all my life is disobey.

Death is the beginning of something.

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

I want to make people cry even when they don't understand my words.

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.

I don't want to die an old lady.

To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

Id like to see one person just one who would own up to having been a coward.

The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel

I am proud of myself.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

Medicine has changed greatly in the last decades. Widespread vaccinations have practically eradicated many illnesses, at least in western Europe and the United States. The use of chemotherapy, especially the antibiotics, has contributed to an ever decreasing number of fatalities in infectious diseases.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

Common hedging techniques include shorting stocks, buying put options, writing call options, and various types of leverage and paired transactions. While I do reserve the right to use these tools if and when appropriate, my firm opinion is that the best hedge is buying an appropriately safe and cheap stock.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Diets are the best way of confusing your metabolism for the rest of your life. Just be you & get on with it.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.

I don't like baggy clothes and looking like anything sloppy. The arms have to fit. The collar has to look perfect.

I have no idea how much money I've got.

I don't really go to the beach.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

I was broke until I was 40. Really broke. I could get by, but I had nothing.

New Agers have always told us that we create our own realities. Mind over matter.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.