“I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.”

I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

It’s a mistake to think that once you’re done with school you need never learn anything new.

The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.

There is no greater love potion than regular coffee, brewed his own. When a man tries it, he was not going anywhere.

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.

I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.

A dog is faithful, a woman never.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.

You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Believe nothing of me except that I felt your beauty more closely than my own.

Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.

I’m afraid to live any place but in expectation. I’m no life-risk.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what’s out of your control.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are.

Early on, you can expect no one to believe in your destiny as much as yourself.