To be somebody you must last.

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

So easy to fall into a rut, isn't it? Why should ruts be so comfortable and so unpopular?

The very best impromptu speeches are the ones written well in advance.

Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!

If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

To be somebody you must last.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.

Discussing how old you are is the temple of boredom.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.

Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use.

Never give up. And never under any circumstances face the facts.

In our family we dont divorce our men we bury them.

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.

You build walls to fortify your heart,and blame on others for your loneliness.

My mother never breast fed me, she told me she only liked me as a friend.

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.

I hate all the red carpet stuff. It's weird, because it's part of what's expected of you now.

There is an image of me in France that is a long stretch from who I really am. I read about this girl who lives in grand hotels and has affairs with American actors - I don't recognise this girl at all. Sometimes it makes me depressed. Sometimes it makes me laugh. Sometimes I think, 'Gosh, that sounds nice, I'd love to be that girl.'

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

Well-trained medical doctors and engineers leave Nigeria to the developed countries. We want to reverse that.

I have my family, which is my main thing; the organization; a modeling career. All these things are important, but family definitely comes first.

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

I want to cut - personally, I want to cut spending. Personally, I just don't believe we can continue to add to the deficit. So, actually, personally, I like the budget cap.

The vast knowledge we have to prevent cancer heart disease and other chronic illnesses is staggering.

There's no doubt that there will be many trials and tribulations along the way in taming space for the benefit of all, unmasking its truths and using the boundless resources available to us. Taking a chance allows us to seek new horizons and we all benefit from being horizon hunters.

The way that I work is very specific, very thorough, and the process has to be totally clear.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.

To relax, I work. I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

I never get used to the red carpets and premieres, to be honest, but when you're walking down the red carpet promoting stories such as 'Mabo,' it means everything to me.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

In my fiction, there's a lot that's borrowed from music. It's never like I'm taking a lyric, but more the mood of a particular song. 'The Boy Detective Fails' was like listening to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles, this very melancholy-but-poppy song.