"I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter."

"I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children."

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

"There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them."

"Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone."

"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star."

"Every person has their own unique way of being lonely."