"The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be."

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”

Source : Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

“People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.”

Source : Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”

“I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There is no lasting glory in rapid weight loss.”

“The formation in geological time of the human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field is as unlikely as the separation of the atmosphere into its components. The complexity of the living things has to be present within the material [from which they are derived] or in the laws [governing their formation].”

Source : "Nature's Imagination". Book by J. Cornwall, p.161-189, 1995.

“Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.”

“There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.”