A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.

I could do an American accent, if I were immersed in the accent, meaning if I were living back in Los Angeles and rehearsing and auditioning the whole time.

Historically courts in this country have been insulated. We do not look beyond our borders for precedents.

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.

Very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.

I'm aware that not all kids can pick up and fly to Panama. I'm very lucky.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

To understand ones self is the classic form of consolation to delude ones self is the romantic.

I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

I think music has always been what I always wanted to do, but I didn't know how or when I was going to get discovered.

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate.

A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile you lose your way in the chaos of life.

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.

Filth and old age, I'm sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.