“What in the world would we do without our libraries?”

I think all good actors are personalities. If they’re not, they’re not stars. What makes you a star is horsepower.

When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

You don’t pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It’s hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.

I don’t feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it’s here. And I think anything good that you’re going to do, you should do for other people here and not so you can try to have a happy time in the next world.

It’s not what you start in life, it’s what you finish.

I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn’t interest you, don’t do it – I would have made a terrible mother.

Vitality! That’s the pursuit of life, isn’t it?

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

People who want to be famous are really loners. Or they should be.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Within the sacred walls of libraries we find the best thoughts, the purest feelings, and the most exalted imaginings of our race.

A scholar is just a library’s way of making another library.

I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn’t due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

If beauty is truth, why don’t women go to the library to have their hair done?

The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Death is an ascension to a better library.

I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.