"There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow."

“We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.”

“I've always felt very proud of Wales and being Welsh. People are a bit surprised when I say I'm Welsh. I was born in Wales, went to school in Wales and my mother was Welsh. I'm Welsh. It's my place of birth, my country.”

“I've slogged like crazy to get where I am. And those who think it's just my body that got me where I am, they should take a look at the others who have rushed in after me. They haven't gone beyond their first feverish film.”

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

“What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.”

“Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.”

Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.113, Prabhat Prakashan

“The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.”

“I wouldn't want to change myself for the whole world”

“I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.”