The habit of religion is oppressive an easy way out of thought.

Monica Seles: I’d hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness a tender look which becomes a habit.

In America through pressure of conformity there is freedom of choice but nothing to choose from.

I’m convinced there’s a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

I am an optimist unrepentant and militant. After all in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

Contrary to general belief I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best they are merely the people who got there first.